Airlines to fly more on the Kerala-Gulf route

Mumbai: Domestic airlines are looking at Kerala to being new routes to West Asia in an attempt to raise the percentage of filled seats in a plane, known as seat factor.
In the last three months, Jet Airways and Air India Express have both announced plans to increase their operations between Kerala and West Asia with plans to begin three new services.
Low-cost carrier, IndiGo which recently started international operations from Delhi and Mumbai, is also eyeing Kerala as a potential market to connect to the West Asian region.
Air India announced the launch of a four times a week service between Delhi-Damam-Calicut and also extended its daily service on the Kochi-Sharjah route to include Delhi.
Meanwhile, Jet Airways is set to start daily flights from Thiruvananthapuram to Sharjah from October 30.
The airline already has a daily flight from Kochi to Sharjah and the additional service will add to the number of daily flights between Kerala and the Gulf.
26/08/11 Debabrata Das/Business Line

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2011, Indian Aviation- In General Aug 2011