Kochi airport winter schedule to have 1,576 operations weekly
The Hindu
Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) announces winter schedule with increased weekly operations and new flight frequencies.
Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has announced its winter schedule, effective between October 27, 2024 and March 29, 2025. The highlight of the winter schedule is that there will be 1,576 weekly operations, as against the 1,480 operations for the ongoing summer schedule 2024.
There will be 134 weekly flights to the UAE. Thai Airways and VietJet will increase flight frequencies and there will be additional daily flights to Chennai, Bangaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, said a communication from CIAL here on Wednesday (October 23, 2024).
CIAL’s summer schedule will see 28 airlines, among which 26 are international carriers operating 336 weekly departures to international destinations. Air India Express tops the list with 51 weekly departures to international destinations, whereas IndiGo will have 41 departure operations weekly.
The other airlines are: Etihad – 28, Air Arabia, Abu Dhabi – 28, Air Asia – 18, Air India – 17, Air Arabia, Akasa, Emirates, Oman Air, Singapore Airlines – 14 each.
As per the winter schedule, the total number of weekly services to the UAE will be 134. There will be 67 weekly departures to Abu Dhabi. Dubai comes second with 46 operations from Kochi. Etihad will operate additional seven weekly flights to Abu Dhabi whereas VietJet is all set to operate daily flights to Vietnam.
Thai Airways is increasing the frequency from three to five weekly premium flights to the Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok. With this, there will be 15 weekly services to Bangkok from Kochi.
In the domestic sector, weekly flights in the 2024 winter schedule includes 112 flights to Bangaluru, 75 to Mumbai, 63 to Delhi, 61 to Chennai, 52 to Hyderabad, 15 to Agatti, 14 each to Ahmedabad and Kolkata, 13 to Pune and seven each to Kozhikode, Goa, Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram and five to Salem.
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