Airline reroutes flights

Doha: The Indian Airlines flight IC997/998 operating from Doha to Kochi via Kozhikode in the Southern Indian state of Kerala has changed its routing due to the run way repairing works in the Kozhikode airport.
Beginning tomorrow, the flight will operate from Doha directly to Kochi and then to Kozhikode arriving at Kozhikode airport at 9.30 am local time.
According to Indian Airlines sources in Doha, about 60 to 70 per cent of the passengers in this daily flight are bound for Kozhikode and they would be affected by a delay of more than one-hour in the arrival time.
The change in the routing will be effective until October 25. The run away works at the Kozhikode air port are being carried out from 11 am until 5pm thus forcing the airline to change the routing, Indian Airlines Qatar Manager S K Sharma said in a release yesterday.
"As the flight will be operating directly to Kochi from Doha and then to Kozhikode, arrival timings at Kochi will now be 0815am and at Kozhikode at 0930 am," said Sharma.
The daily flight will now operate Kozhikode/Kochi-Doha/Bahrain and back as per the following schedule.
IC997 CCJ/COK 1330/1400 IC997 COK/DOH 1445/1645 IC997 DOH/BAH 1740/1825 IC998 BAH/DOH 0005/0050 IC998 DOH/COK 0140/0815 IC998 COK/CCJ 0900/0930 (all local timings).
31/08/08 Peninsula On-line, Qatar

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