Air India Express has increased operations threefold from Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Silchar-in northeast India, with its winter schedule aimed at improving connectivity based on rising demand. It recently increased its flights from Guwahati to 106 a week, compared with 63 a week in the previous winter, and will operate direct services to eight destinations: Agartala, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Kochi, Kolkata, and Pune besides one-stop connectivity to many cities.
In Imphal, weekly flights have increased to 34. With Agartala, the number of weekly flights has grown from 14 to 21; all are directly connected to Guwahati and Kolkata. This network is part of Air India Express’s enhanced winter services all over the country and internal connectivity in many more regions.
Ankur Garg, Chief Commercial Officer of Air India Express stated that the increase in flight operations will ease accessibility and usability to travel into and out of the Northeast. “Guwahati and other airports are turning out to be strong centres on the national network. A fleet size of above 90 aircraft gives us the muscle to push for expected and expected increases in demand coming from the emerging urban centres across India,” he said.
Source: Devdiscourse
