Air India Express contemplates new routes for expansion

Mumbai: Air India Express, the low cost arm of the national carrier, Air India, plans to add new routes to destinations like Kuwait, Doha, Bahrain, Port Blair and Phuket and Dammam in Saudi Arabia. The airline is contemplating connecting Kuwait with Mangalore and Dammam to Kerala. It also plans flights from Delhi to Doha, Bahrain, Port Blair and Phuket.
Air India Express will add one new station, as well as new routes. The airline intends to start these routes during the summer schedule, which starts from March 30,2008. The new station will be Dhaka and it will be connected on the Calcutta-Singapore and Calcutta-Bangkok flight. It also plans to connect Dhaka and Mumbai in the near future.
The airline will start flights to Dubai from Pune and Ahmedabad. Each of these flights will be operating thrice a week. The airline will also restart flights from Hyderabad to Dubai, thrice a week. In addition, the Nagpur-Dubai flight, which was introduced in October 2007, will now be extended to Indore.
28/02/08 Krupa Vora/TravelBizMonitor

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