Air India Express announced the launch of a new flight which will connect Muscat with Amritsar-New Delhi (via Abu Dhabi). The airline is also exploring two additional flights a week between Muscat and Kochi (via Mangalore) on Wednesdays and Fridays. The state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which is a 185-seater, will fly on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with effect from September 4. The announcement was made at a press conference in Muscat, chaired by Indian Ambassador to the Sultanate, Anil Wadhwa, and Air India Express manager for Oman, Mohit Sain. These flights will depart Muscat at 20.35 hrs and arrive at Amritsar at 03.25 hrs the following day. John, airport manager, was also present at the press meet.
Welcoming the introduction of additional flights, Wadhwa said, "These flights will allow connections to places which were hitherto difficult to reach." Sain, who has recently taken over as manager, assured that the airline would explore direct flights to Ahmedabad and Goa. Air India Express in the Oman sector has not suffered any losses, Sain informed. Air India Express, the low-cost subsidiary of Air India, commenced its operations to Oman in May 2005, coinciding with the 50th year of diplomatic ties between the Sultanate and India. Air India Express currently operates four flights a week to Kozhikode, three to Thiruvananthapuram, two to Kochi and three to Mangalore from Muscat. As the only carrier operating international flights between Salalah and Kerala, Air India Express has three flights a week to Kochi, two to Kozhikode and one to Thiruvananthapuram from Salalah.
In addition to Air India Express operations, Air India also provides connectivity with daily non-stop flights to Delhi, Ahmedabad via Mumbai, Chennai via Kochi and Kozhikode and three weekly flights to Hyderabad via Bangalore. Air India Express flies to 14 international destinations — Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Muscat, Salalah, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Bahrain, Doha, Kuwait, Colombo and Dhaka from 17 Indian cities, namely Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Amritsar, Srinagar, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mangalore and Tiruchirapally.
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