Birmingham flights to Indian city of Amritsar are increased

Birmingham flights to the Indian holy city of Amritsar are being increased – as hundreds of West Midland families flock to the world-renowned Golden Temple.
A new route to India, launched from Birmingham Airport less than a fortnight ago, has had so much interest the airline now plans to increase the number of weekly services.
Comtel Air began flights to Amritsar from Birmingham on October 1 and planned to operate two weekly services each Saturday and Sunday.
But the airline says it has had such an overwhelming response from the region’s Indian community it will be increasing the flights from Birmingham, taking an aircraft from another European base to accommodate demand in the Midlands.
Thomas Kopetzky, Director Ground Operations for Comtel Air, said: “We knew there was demand for more flights to India from Birmingham due to the large Asian community living in the Midlands and we thought that we’d eventually have to put on more flights but we never imagined we’d have to make this decision so soon after launching the first service.
17/10/11 Jon Griffin/Birmingham Mail

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