IndiGo, India's fastest-growing low-cost carrier, will boost its services to Dubai by adding three more Indian cities to its Gulf-India sector within eight weeks.
The airline, which has defied worldwide sluggish aviation growth trends to emerge as the largest domestic sector operator in India within six years after it first took to the skies, will start daily flights to Dubai from Trivandrum, Calicut and Mangalore by early 2013.
It will also launch a second daily Mumbai-Dubai service to increase its total number of weekly flights to the Gulf from 84 to 112.
"As a result, our capacity would increase from 15,120 seats per week to 20,160," IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh told Khaleej Times.
The new capacity boost comes less than three months after the airline, now commanding 27.4 per cent of the market share in India's domestic sector, expanded services to Dubai with daily direct flights from three Indian cities.
In August 2012, the airline launched daily and non-stop flights between Dubai and Hyderabad, Dubai and Chennai, and Dubai and Kochi. Additionally, IndiGo launched its second daily and direct flight between Dubai and Delhi three months ago.
01/12/12 Khaleej Times/MENAFN
