Flydubai spreads its wings to three Indian cities

Starting mid-July, budget carrier flydubai will commence operations to three Indian cities, bringing the airline's total number of destinations to eight since its launch early this month.
The Dubai's first budget carrier said yesterday it will start flights to Indian's north eastern city of Lucknow on July 13, followed by Coimbatore in the south on July 14, and Chandigarh in the north west on July 23.
While the airline will fly to Lucknow four times a week, with fares starting from Dh425, it would operate a thrice-weekly service to Coimbatore for the same fare. And it would serve Chandigarh with a daily service with fares starting at Dh350.
The initiative to start the air service is part of an agreement between India and the UAE that allows each side a weekly seating capacity of over 29,000 in either direction on outbound flights, a senior Indian civil aviation ministry official was recently quoted as saying by an Indian financial daily Economic Times.
It added that flydubai will initially fly to smaller cities such as Lucknow, Coimbatore, Chandigarh and Jaipur.
Currently flying to four destinations — Beirut, Amman, Damascus and Alexandria, flydubai recently added Aleppo in Syria to its network of destinations.
And now, with three more destinations added, flydubai intends to fly between 14 and 16 destinations by the end of the year "subject to government approvals", a flydubai spokesperson told Emirates Business.
25/06/09 Shweta Jain/Emirates Business 24/7, UAE

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