Aviation Weekly -1#Aug

Air Costa increases flights to Madurai

Regional carrier Air Costa has increased flights on the Chennai – Madurai – Chennai sector. The new flights will be effective 6^th August and operate as below

LB640 MAA1040 – 1135IXM D

LB641 IXM1155 – 1250MAA D

SpiceJet pulls out of Mysore

Spicejet, which is the sole carrier to Mysore, operating 5x weekly from Bengaluru with a one stop from Chennai, is pulling out flights effective 1^st September.

Spicejet has tried different routings for this route, including a direct flight from Chennai.

Spicejet increases frequency for limited period on select sectors

Spicejet is adding limited period flights to Bengaluru, Hyderabad and onwards to Tirupati. The aircraft would operate Delhi – Hyderabad – Tirupati – Hyderabad – Delhi – Bengaluru – Delhi from Friday to Monday, and run till 8^th September

IndiGo stops booking for flights on Delhi – Bangkok sector

Domestic leader IndiGo, has stopped bookings for its flights to crisis ridden Thailand’s capital Bangkok from Delhi effective 1^st September. Flights on Kolkata – Bangkok sector are open for sale.

IndiGo has yet not pulled out of a station completely, having launched Chennai – Singapore flights, when it cancelled flights to Singapore from Mumbai and Delhi.

The cancellation of Delhi – Bangkok double daily flights will free up one aircraft which could well be deployed on the domestic route to take on Air Asia India.

Air India re-times Singapore – Delhi flight to offer more connections

Effective 21^st August, Air India will re-time its Singapore – Delhi departure to help connect passengers boarding in Singapore to Frankfurt, Paris, Rome & Milan via its Delhi Hub. The advancement is being done by swapping aircrafts in Singapore, with the Mumbai – Chennai – Singapore flight being shifted from A330 to B787. Delhi – Singapore operated with B787. This will result in delayed departure to Chennai and onwards to Mumbai

Air India re-times flights to Moscow to offer more connections

Air India which recently launched 4x weekly flights to Moscow, will re-time their flights effective Winter schedule to have better connections. I have been arguing that the late night departure is not helping get connections at Russia end. However, this re-time is more to get connections to Australia.

The revised timings would be as below, effective 26^th October

AI155 DEL1940 – 2320DME

AI156 DME0100 – 0855DEL