Spicejet to connect Chennai-Colombo

Chennai: Spicejet on Friday said it would launch its new Chennai-Colombo flight on Saturday.
"The flight is scheduled to take off from Chennai at 1.30 am and will be received at Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo at 2.50 am", Spicejet said in a statement here.
SUN TV Network chief Kalanidhi Maran will flag off the flight.
On the return journey, the Colombo-Chennai flight, would be flagged off at 4.10 am by Sri Lankan deputy minister of ports and aviation Abeygunawardena, it said.
With this SpiceJet would operate daily flights between Colombo and Chennai, which would also be further connected to other important hubs within the domestic network of the two nations, it said.
The base fare on this route begins from Rs 999 and the airline would fly Boeing 737-800 aircraft, it said.
The airlines completed five years of operation in the domestic market in May 2010. Over the next few months, it had planned to expand its network to Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives.
08/10/10 PTI/Times of India

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