Lucknow has become the 12th Indian station to have direct connectivity with Dubai, as Air Indian Express flights start to fly from the city. This is following the thrice weekly flights of Air India Express to Dubai, a part of the new winter schedule which is being introduced on the 28th of October 2007. Last week Jaipur had become the 11th Indian station for the Dubai routes.
The Lucknow flights will be thrice weekly departing on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving the following day. The flights out of Jaipur will be on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
With the introduction of these new flights, Air India Express will operate 46 flights a week to Dubai from 12 Indian stations, viz. Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Mangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Trichy, Amritsar, Nagpur, Delhi, Jaipur and Lucknow.