Kolkata: City will get direct flights to Udaipur, Jodhpur and Coimbatore and one-stop connection to Leh, Kanpur, Bhavnagar and Jaisalmer from next month with Indigo and Spicejet add several new flights in these sectors.
The addition of new flights will take the number of movements (arrival and departure) in Kolkata to almost 390, up from 300-350 today.
At present, the number of flights is high on Monday, Wednesday and Friday when there is no embargo on the arrival of flights from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
In other days a week, a sharp count of dipips.
Spicejet has written to the Secretary of Head of Bengal, asking for an flight embargo from three countries to draw because travel demand has increased.
The count of passengers at Kolkata airport is ready to increase from around 45,000 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to around 55,000-60,000.
It’s almost at the pre-pandemic level.
With international fighting has not yet been operational, the number of daily passengers is lower than the pre-pandemic level of around 7,000-8,000.
Indigo which currently operates 88 flights from Kolkata will add direct flights to Jodhpur from October 31.
The airline will also add direct flights to Udaipur and Coimbatore from November 2.
Indigo aircraft movements at Kolkata Airport have increased from June 42 to June 8 to 104 in July to 176 in October.
Other low-cost carriers, Spicejet, also add flights from Kolkata.
Although it will operate direct flights of Kolkata-udapur on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, a one-stop connection to Leh, Kanpur, Bhavnagar and Jaisalmer on the runway.
While the new route will be comfortable, airlines hope the sidewalk flights from Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Pune are immediately issued because this is a high traffic sector.
“Airlines here are still waiting for DGCA permissions for fresh slots to accommodate the full capacity of the flight.
But it is also permitted, passenger footsteps will definitely increase further at the airport.
If there is no updated Covid surge and all restrictions on the circumstances are also drawn, we will Reaching a pre-covid number at the end of this year, “said Director of Kolkata C Pattabhi Airport.