Friday, February 16, 2007

Mangalore-Abu Dhabi flight inaugurated

Mangalore: Air India Express, the low cost airline of Air India, started its Abu Dhabi-Muscat-Mangalore and Mangalore-Abu Dhabi-Muscat service from Thursday.
With this, Mangalore is connected to two more locations in West Asia. The city had direct flight only to Dubai when the same airlines started its Mangalore-Dubai tri-weekly service on October 3, 2006.
The flight Boeing 737/800 (Abu Dhabi-Muscat-Mangalore) from Abu Dhabi and via Muscat landed at the Bajpe airport here at 10 p.m. on Thursday.
It took off (Mangalore--Abu Dhabi-Muscat) to Abu Dhabi at 11.55 p.m. to reach Muscat later. This flight will operate twice a week on Thursdays and Saturdays.
The flight to Dubai operates on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Abu Dhabi-Muscat flight became the second flight of Air India Express to operate between Mangalore and West Asia. The flight that landed at the Bajpe airport had taken off from Abu Dhabi at 4.10 p.m. (Abu Dhabi time).
16/02/07 Raviprasad Kamila/The Hindu
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