Jet Airways Konnect, the all-economy, low-cost subsidiary of Jet Airways, the privately owned airline based in Mumbai, India, has started 3 new flights from Delhi to Chennai, Patna and Raipur.

Madurai-based Paramount Airlines has announced that it will start another daily service between Chennai and Kolkata to cater to business executives from eastern and southern India.

The National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) has announced that it will start biweekly Air India Express flights from Chennai to Abu Dhabi, via Tiruchirapalli, from April 30, 2009.

Jet Airways has added daily flight services to Dubai from Chennai, from April 23, 2009. It has also launched another daily Mumbai-Dubai flight.

Air India Express, the low-cost airline subsidiary of Air India, is launching a two-days-a-week service between Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from April 30, 2009.

The Chennai-based Paramount airlines plans to start their new daily flights to Kolkata from April 22, 2009.

Emirates Business Class companion offer for flights ex-Chennai have been announced.

Dubai-based Emirates has launched a new Companion Offer scheme that would provide its passengers in the Chennai-Dubai route with a complimentary economy class return ticket for a companion.

India's premier airline Kingfisher Airlines will start flying to Colombo, Sri Lanka from Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Bangalore, Karnataka, India from January 19, 2009.

Western India will soon see Paramount flights with the Tamil Nadu-based domestic airline major all set to kick off operations to Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Goa.