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Emirates set to increase weekly flights to India in two stages
Emirates will add another 31 weekly flights to India from November and again from February, it reported on Sunday.
- Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:26 November 2, 2008
- Emirates will add another 31 weekly flights to India from November and again from February, it reported on Sunday.
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Dubai: Emirates will add another 31 weekly flights to India from November and again from February, it reported on Sunday.
In its second major expansion campaign for India this year the airline will be operating 163 weekly flights to 10 gateways.
The expansion will be implemented in a phased manner with key cities Mumbai and New Delhi as the main beneficiaries. Important commercial hubs including Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi will also be served with additional frequencies.
Connections
"Owing to the liberalisation of the Indian skies and growing demand for air travel, Emirates is extending its presence in India.
"Our winter expansion - the single largest growth in our operations - closely follows the extension of services in the summer of this year, and represents our commitment to the market and our confidence in its potential," said Emirates vice-president of commercial operations for West Asia, the Indian Ocean and Africa Salem Obaidullah said.
"The additional frequencies have been timed to offer passengers more consistent schedules and seamless connections to onward points in Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East."
From February 1 next year Emirates flights will depart for Mumbai 35 times a week.
Cargo capacity will increase to 641 tonnes per week.
The Indian capital New Delhi, which was initially served by 18 weekly flights, will have a weekly frequency of 25 flights per week after the expansion.
Bangalore
Five additional flights will be added to the Dubai-Bangalore operations between November and February, bringing the number of flights to 20 per week.
"It will also provide significant thrust to cargo movements from Bangalore which exports electronic hardware, engineering goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fruits, vegetables, and readymade garments to the Gulf, Africa, Europe and America," Emirates said.
Four additional flights will be added to the Chennai-Dubai operations immediately, bringing the number of flights per week to 19.
Two additional flights will depart to the commercial centre of the Indian state of Kerala, Kochi immediately and another two more flights will be added next February.
Three new flights to Hyderabad will take effect immediately and one more will be introduced in December.
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