Airlines busy drawing new links to Hyderabad, Bangalore

New Delhi: With new airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore slated to start operations within the next two months a host of domestic and international airlines have already planned additional flights and new connections to make use of the new facilities coming up there.
The Executive Chairman, SpiceJet, Mr Siddhanta Sharma, told Business Line that his airline would be stationing a 189 seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Hyderabad when the new airport opens.
The new airport in Hyderabad opens on March 16 while the Bangalore airport becomes operational at the end of March.
The President IndiGo Airlines, Mr Bruce Ashby, said that with the proposed aircraft induction programme and in view of congestion at Delhi and Mumbai airports, the airline would look at adding more flights from the two southern cities.
A spokesperson for GoAir said that in anticipation of the airport opening, the weekly departures from Bangalore had increased from 21 to 49 weekly commercial flights, while in Hyderabad, the weekly departures were up from 13 to 40 flights.
Officials of Air India and Jet Airways also indicated that with both airlines inducting more aircraft during the year an increase in frequency and connectivity to both cities was very much on the cards.
Among the international airlines, British Airways has already announced that it would start a five-times-a-week flight between Hyderabad and London from October 28.
During the year both Kingfisher Airlines and Air India plan to start flights from Bangalore to the West Coast of the United States.
13/01/08 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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