Air India Express, India's first International budget airline will add two more cities in India to its route network. - Amritsar and Mangalore.
Effective October 2, 2006 two weekly flights will commence between Amritsar and Dubai. With this, Air- India Express has taken the first step to fulfill the requirement of the Punjab market for direct flights to the Gulf. These flights will be progressively stepped up in the near future.
Air India Express will also commence a twice weekly service on the Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore route. This will be the first international service from Mangalore in Karnataka.
With the proposed operations from Amritsar and Mangalore, effective October 2, 2006, the total number of flights ex-India to UAE and Oman will increase to 39 per week. Out of which 35 weekly flights will be operated from the three cities of Kerala viz. Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode to the UAE and Oman.
Air India Express operates flights to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Al-Ain, in the UAE and to Muscat and Salalah in Oman.
Presently, the Air India Express flights operate with an all-economy-class-configuration Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
