AI facility for transit passengers to US

Nedumbassery: Aiming to lessen the transit time for passengers from Kochi to the U.S, Air India, in its summer schedule from Cochin airport, has restructured its operations by fixing the departure time of its daily direct flight to Mumbai (AI 691) at 9.55 p.m. and would facilitate the clearances for the West bound passengers at Kochi instead of the transit point, Mumbai.
The airline also announced an augmentation of its services to Saudi Arabia on a daily basis with four flights to Damam and three flights to Riyadh carrying out services from Kochi on alternative days in its new schedule effective from March 29. It has also decided to enhance the intra- Kerala connectivity by linking the three airports in the state.
With the schedule, AI with its no frills wing AIE, will be the major international service provider from Cochin with 42 landings per week. The officials also said that the intra Kerala connectivity package was aimed at the `holiday passenger market’.
The airline will make Frankfurt as its operational hub for West bound flights and will have direct connectivity for flights from and to cities like Kochi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore. Later this year, they also plan to launch a Delhi-San Francisco flight, the longest flight to be operated from India.
23/03/09 Kerala Online

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