Air India Express adds new flights

ABU DHABI, 14 February 2011 (Wam): Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) and Air India Express announced on Sunday the addition of two new flights of the Indian carrier from Abu Dhabi International Airport starting today.

Air India Express will add one weekly flight to its Mangalore-Abu Dhabi route and another weekly flight to the Amritsar-Abu Dhabi route. This frequency increase will bring the total weekly flights of Air India Express at Abu Dhabi International Airport to 32 servicing seven destinations in India. The decision to increase frequency came in response to the growing demand.

Ahmed Al Haddabi, senior vice-president of Airports Operations at ADAC, said: "We are delighted to see that our airline partners are expanding their services to meet our passengers' growing demand. At ADAC, we continuously support such initiatives, which assist us in offering our customers with more choices, and putting us a step forward towards our goal in becoming a leading world class airport."

Harjeet Sawhney, manager of Air India Express in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, commented: "Air India Express is pleased to announce this increase in frequency on the two routes, which reflect our confidence in the Abu Dhabi market and the level of services made available to us by Abu Dhabi Airports Company."

Air India Express will be operating a state-of the-art B737 aircraft departing from Abu Dhabi to Mangalore every Monday at 4.45am local time to arrive at Mangalore Airport at 9.50am. The other flight departs from Abu Dhabi at 5.45pm local time to arrive at Amritsar Airport at 11.15pm local time. -