Private airlines will be adding up to 10 new flights to existing and new destinations in the monsoon and winter schedule at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
As per a report in TOI, the New flights will connect Ahmedabad to Nagpur and Trivandrum and increase the number of daily flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. This is good news especially for business travellers who have been on the receiving end due to the complete closure of runway between 10.30 am and 5 pm at city airport till June 15.
Airports Authority of India's (AAI) recently released air traffic figures state that domestic flyers in Ahmedabad moved up from 26,717 in 2009-10 to 28,445 in 2010-11, an increase of around 6.5 per cent.
Sources said that while Jet Airways is adding three new flights, including Trivandrum via Bangalore and Hyderabad via Pune and one new flight for Delhi, low-cost carrier Go Air has already started two new flights to Delhi and Mumbai. Also SpiceJet will soon begin an Ahmedabad-Nagpur direct flight.
Sources said Air India is also mulling new daily flights to Delhi and Mumbai in the morning and evening.
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