India's airlines register record growth in Bahrain

Manama: India's airlines registered record traffic and revenue from Bahrain, it was revealed yesterday.
Indian Airlines carried a record total of 3,500 people to and from Bahrain last month in its 12-year history, said country manager for both Indian Airlines and Air India Meenakshi Mallik.
Both airlines are being merged and is now known as Air India.
Indian Airlines operates to Calicut, Kerala, and Air India Express to Calicut, Cochin, Trivandrum (all in Kerala), Mangalore and Mumbai.
While Indian Airlines operates daily flights, Air India Express operates 13 flights a week.
Since Air India Express launched its operations in Bahrain in April 2007, it set a record in terms of revenue both in March and April this year, Ms Mallik told the GDN.
"The revenue in March was more than BD262,000 ($695,062), and this was the highest since the airline started operating to Bahrain," she added.
"The revenue in April showed a 12pc increase over March."
Ms Mallik said the figures clearly showed that the recession has not affected the travel to and from India.
"Though there were reports in the past that the job market in Bahrain and other Gulf countries is affected because of recession, our experience proves that a large number of people are still coming from India to take up jobs in Bahrain," she noted.
14/05/09 Soman Baby/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

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