has plans to connect Chennai and Ahmedabad by using a fleet of newly-introduced Bombardier Q-400 turboprop aircraft soon.

These will be the first daily direct flights to Chennai and Ahmedabad from the Orange City, a spice jet official informed. Earlier, Air India Express had connected Nagpur to Ahmedabad with its Mumbai-Nagpur-Ahmedabad-Dubai network as per a report in TOI. 

SpiceJet is expanding its domestic routes with a new fleet of Boeing 737 NextGen aircraft and the latest one is the Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft from Bombardier. Recently, it added 10 more aircraft to its fleet which will operate on the Chennai and Ahmedabad sector from Nagpur, the official added.

Recently, the airline also started flights from Nanded (a Sikh pilgrimage place) to Aurangabad, Mumbai and Delhi. Meanwhile, Spice Jet recently changed the schedule of its operations for Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi from the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport here.

Flights to Bangalore which used to take-off at 9.45am will now leave at 7.40am and land at 9.05am. The Delhi flight will depart at 8.40am while the one to Hyderabad is scheduled for 8.15 am. Flights have been re-scheduled due to closure of the Bangalore Airport from 10.15am to 6pm till May 4, the official added.

Meanwhile. Jet Airways which operates three flights to Mumbai, has decided to re-introduce its premier(executive class) service from April 17. Spokesman of the airline informed that the service will be introduced on its afternoon Mumbai-Nagpur flight S2 4175 which departs at 3.50pm and lands at 4.40pm and the S2 4176 Nagpur-Mumbai flight which takes-off at 5.20pm.