Mangalore-Delhi air link from 28

Mangalore: Mangalore will have a flight connection to Delhi for the first time beginning Sunday.
Air India will start operating a flight from the Mangalore airport to Delhi six days a week, except on Saturdays, Chellam Prasad, Mangalore Station Manager for Air India, told The Hindu.
“The flight will be operated through two circular routes via Kozhikode,” she said.
Ms. Prasad said that the first route would be Delhi-Mangalore-Kozhikode-Delhi. The second one would be Delhi-Kozhikode-Mangalore-Delhi.
The flight will be stationed at Delhi.
The flight will change its route on alternate days. If it operates on the Delhi-Mangalore-Kozhikode-Delhi route on Sunday, on Monday it will be Delhi-Kozhikode-Mangalore
-Delhi. “The direct journey between Mangalore and Delhi will take about three hours. However, the proposed route via Kozhikode will take an extra hour,” she said.
Detailed flight schedules will be announced in a day or two.
23/03/10 Raviprasad Kamila/The Hindu

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