Passengers get more options to travel as IndiGo, GoAir and Spicejet add flights across the country

As demands remains robust, India's carriers are adding flights across the country giving passengers more options to travel.

GoAir, IndiGo and SpiceJet are adding flights; Vistara is growing its fleet while Jet Airways is planning to announce new services shortly. GoAir today said that it is launching 12 additional daily frequencies and 4 new routes.

With the launch of four new routes, GoAir becomes the first airline to directly connect Mumbai - Leh and Bengaluru - Port Blair 'in the wake of growing demand on these sectors'. "GoAir also announced daily direct connectivity between Bengaluru, Patna and Ranchi," the airline said in a release.

Additional frequencies with improved timings have also been introduced connecting 10 Indian cities. "Ranchi, Lucknow and Patna will see increased daily frequencies from Delhi. Srinagar will be additionally connected with Mumbai. Leh will also see an additional frequency to Srinagar," the airline said.

"Overall the new summer schedule follows the principle of connecting the triangle Mumbai-Delhi-BLR with better timings and reaching out from that cities to tier II and tier III cities," said CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer.

It added that 'improved' timings will be implemented on key routes like Mumbai - Bengaluru, Delhi - Bengaluru, Mumbai - Goa, Delhi - Goa and Delhi - Kolkata. Ahmedabad being an important market, third daily direct flight will be introduced from Mumbai.

Recently,IndiGo announced the launch of 24 new flights connecting key cities within the country.

"Effective 07 January, 2016, IndiGo is launching twelve flights connecting Delhi to Trivandrum, Bengaluru to Vishakhapatnam, Bengaluru to Bhubaneshwar, Ahmedabad to Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar to Kolkata and Chennai to Trivandrum. With effect from January 14, 2016, IndiGo will launch its sixth daily non-stop flight between Chennai and Hyderabad. Additionally, IndiGo is also launching 10 flights on January 15, 2016, connecting Bengaluru to Kolkata, Delhi to Ahmedabad, Delhi to Bengaluru, Delhi to Kolkata and Hyderabad to Mumbai;" the airline said in a release.

Before that, SpiceJet said that it has increased capacity on the Delhi-Kabul route as well as on domestic routes such as Chennai- Kochi, Bengaluru-Vijaywada, Kochi-Chennai and Hyderabad-Vijaywada. On Saturday, Vistara said it would be adding 4 Airbus A320 planes this year. The airline currently operates a fleet of 9 Airbus 320 aircraft and operates 307 weekly flights to 12 destinations across the country.

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