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CIAL announces winter schedule

KOCHI: Cochin International Airport Ltd. (CIAL) announced on Thursday its winter schedule with a projected growth rate of 30 per cent in aircraft and passenger movements. The schedule will come into force on Sunday and continue till March 29, 2008.

Under it, international services out of the airport will increase to 169 a week from the 145 in the prevailing summer schedule, registering a growth of 17 per cent, whereas domestic services will increase from 225 to 269, growing by 20 per cent.

The number of services from the airport will increase from 370 to 438, an increase of 19 per cent.

There will be nine daily services to Bangalore, eight to Mumbai, seven to Chennai, six to Hyderabad, four each to Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram, one each to Agatti and Kozhikode and two services a day each to Mangalore and Goa.

Kingfisher Airlines will operate the most number of services out of Kochi, 69 a week, followed by Jet Airways with 56 weekly services. Air Deccan will operate 42 a week, Indian 25, Indigo and Paramount Airways 21 each, Spice Jet and JetLite (formerly Air Sahara) 14 each and Go Air seven.

In the international sector, the airport will be connected to West Asia destinations, apart from Singapore, Male and Colombo.

Air India Express, Indian and Air India will operate the most number of international services this winter, with 43, 34 and 13 services a week, respectively. Among the foreign airlines, SriLankan Airlines will operate the most number of services with 11 weekly services.

The budget carrier Air Arabia and Emirates will operate 10 weekly services each. Oman Air, Silk Air and Qatar Airways will operate seven weekly services each. Kuwait Airways, Gulf Air and Etihad Airways will operate five services each a week. Mahan Air, Saudi Arabian Airlines and Tiger Airways will operate three weekly services each.

A significant inclusion in the winter schedule is the launch of operations by the Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways. Besides, Mahan Air will operate to Tehran rather than Bander Abbas.

Announcing the new schedule, Shriram Bharath, Managing Director, CIAL, said the international passenger movement between April and September increased to 8.85 lakh from the 7.21 lakh during the corresponding period last year, registering a growth of 22.81 per cent.

In the domestic sector, passenger movement registered a growth of 38.92 per cent, as the number of passengers increased to 7.09 lakh from April to September as against 5.1 lakh during the corresponding period in the last year.

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