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Friday, Jun 30, 2006

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More Paramount Airways flights out of Chennai

T.S. Shankar

To fly thrice-daily services to Bangalore and Hyderabad

CHENNAI : Chennai-based private carrier Paramount Airways has increased its daily flight operations out of Chennai Kamaraj Domestic Terminal to 25 from the present 14 from Thursday.

Increase in frequency

Giving details of the increase in frequency of services Paramount Airways Managing Director M. Thiagarajan told The Hindu that the airline would fly thrice-daily services to Bangalore and Hyderabad. "The new services to Hyderabad and Bangalore will be a boon to link conveniently all the three major Information Technology hubs in South India, " he said.

Speaking on the airline's expansion, which now operates with two 72-seater Embraer jets, Mr.Thiagarajan said with the arrival of a third Embraer jet from Brazil on July 7 to Chennai, the airline would introduce flights to Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore.

Fleet increase

The increase in fleet would also facilitate the airline to re-introduce flights to Delhi, increase frequencies to Kochi, besides introduce services to Mumbai from Chennai.

Presently, the airline flies to Coimbatore, Madurai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

Mr.Thiagarajan said the airline had recently signed an agreement with the Amadeus Reservation System, providing hassle free bookings to be made by over 1,600 travel agencies across the country.

He said that with the arrival of the third Embraer jet from Brazil, the airline which was an all `Business class airline' would provide dual seating configuration with 11 First Class seats being introduced.

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