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BY OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
25 July, 2005: Air India is planning to commence non-stop flights from Mumbai to Kuala Lumpur, making it one of the three prominent destinations in Southeast Asia. The carrier, as part of its drive to enhance its market share, will also launch 14 additional flights to various destinations in Asia, including Seoul.
Apart from Kuala Lumpur, the carrier would operate to non-stop flights from Mumbai to two other destinations, Singapore and Bangkok. The frequency to Kuala Lumpur would be increased to 13 flights a week including seven from Chennai, three non-stop flights each from Mumbai and Delhi.
The airline has launched from fourteen additional flights to Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong and Osaka, the other places under its Asian expansion plans, from July 7, 2005.
As per the new schedule, Air India will now operate 16 flights a week to Singapore with non-stop services from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and
Hyderabad.
Air India would now recommence its services to South Korea from after a gap of nearly six years with the induction of two Airbus 310 aircraft. The aircraft were taken on dry lease during June-July 2005.
A-I will operate 18 code share flights per week with Malaysia Airlines including 13 on the Mumbai-Bangalore-Hyderabad-Kuala Lumpur sector and five on the Kuala Lumpur-Los Angeles sector.
The airline would double its services from the existing five to 12 to Hong Kong including five services from Mumbai to Hong Kong via Bangkok and also increase its services to Bangkok to 11 flights from six currently.
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