TIRUCHI: Air India Express, the budget carrier, will add six flights a week to Singapore from Tiruchi starting September 10.
With this, the airline’s flights on the Tiruchi-Singapore sector will go up to nine a week. The airline is currently operating three flights a week each on the Tiruchi-Singapore and Tiruchi-Dubai sectors.
The airline will deploy an additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft for three additional flights while the existing flights on the Singapore-Tiruchi-Chennai sector will be extended to Singapore on the other three days.
The additional flights will be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays making it two flights to Singapore from here on these three days, the district sales manager of Air India Express, S. Kannan, said.
The Singapore-Tiruchi-Chennai-Singapore flight will arrive at Tiruchi at 11.20 a.m. and leave for Singapore at 12.20 p.m. on all the three days. The Singapore-Tiruchi flights, which are being extended to Singapore, will operate at the same timing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Dubai-Tiruchi-Chennai-Singapore night flights will continue to operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The increase in the frequency comes in the wake of the good response to the Singapore flights from here which were introduced by the airline in March this year.
“The flights are operating with a load factor of over 90 per cent,” Mr.Kannan said. The flights could carry a maximum of 165 passengers with a load penalty.
The airline will be mainly targeting the labour and ethnic traffic. Most of the travellers of these segments now board the flights from Chennai. The airline is also likely to increase its frequency to Dubai. Meanwhile, the new apron at the Tiruchi Airport will be ready by October.
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