Dubai: Flydubai is adding 10 new flights to India with four weekly flights to Delhi and three weekly flights to both Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram commencing in June.
The Indian expansion follows a recent change earlier to an air services agreement that will add 11,000 more seats on the Dubai-India route.
The Dubai-based discount carrier announced the new destinations earlier this month and on Sunday confirmed that the Delhi flights will start on June 1 and Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram on June 2 and 3, respectively.
Flights to Delhi will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The three weekly Kochi flights will operate on Monday’s, Thursday’s and Saturday’s. Thiruvananthapuram flights will run on Tuesday’s, Friday’s and Sunday’s. Economy class return fares start between Dh875 and Dh950.
While traditionally a point-to-point low cost carrier, flydubai is hopeful about catching transiting passenger market share.
“These new flights will give passengers from different regions in India direct links to Dubai, enhancing flight connectivity beyond the city to GCC countries and to destinations in Africa, Central Asia, Russia and Europe, most of which have no or very few direct links to India,” stated Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice President Commercial (GCC, Subcontinent, Africa) for flydubai.
Flydubai has operated into India since 2010.
