Gurugram: Private air operator SpiceJet today announced the launch of 12 new direct flights including flights connecting Ahmedabad to Kishangarh and Surat to Chennai.

The flights announced today encompass international, UDAN as well as regular domestic routes. All flights on the domestic sectors are effective from 31st March, 2019 while the international flight will commence operations on 15th April, 2019.

Six new UDAN flights include Kishangarh-Ahmedabad-Kishangarh, Lakhimpur-Guwahati-Lakhimpur and Jaipur-Amritsar-Jaipur. The airline will be deploying its Bombardier Q-400 aircraft on the UDAN routes.

SpiceJet will be the first and only Indian airline to operate flights between Kishangarh-Ahmedabad-Kishangarh and Jaipur-Amritsar-Jaipur.

The airline will operate daily flights between Guwahati-Lakhimpur-Guwahati and Jaipur-Amritsar-Jaipur while flights between Ahmedabad and Kishangarh will be operational on all days of the week except Sundays.

SpiceJet has also announced four new daily direct flights connecting Chennai with Patna and Surat. The airline will be the first carrier to operate flights on the Chennai-Patna-Chennai sector.

SpiceJet has announced introductory all inclusive promotional fare starting at INR 2464/- on Ahmedabad-Kishangarh, INR 2464/- on Kishangarh-Ahmedabad, INR 2599/- on Chennai-Surat and INR 2599/- on Surat-Chennai routes.

At present, SpiceJet operates 23 flights under UDAN on the routes of Kolkata-Lakhimpur-Kolkata, Delhi-Kishangarh-Delhi, Kolkata-Pakyong-Kolkata, Guwahati-Pakyong-Guwahati, Mumbai-Porbandar, Mumbai-Kandla-Mumbai, Hyderabad-Puducherry-Hyderabad, Jaipur-Jaisalmer-Jaipur, Delhi-Adampur-Delhi, Ahmedabad-Jaisalmer-Ahmedabad, Surat-Jaisalmer-Surat and Delhi-Kanpur-Delhi.

The statement said: SpiceJet sees huge demand to and from Kishangarh and Lakhimpur and has hence augmented connectivity from these cities. Currently, the airline flies to Delhi and Kolkata from Kishangarh and Lakhimpur respectively. With the new flights, passengers from Colombo, Kishangarh, Lakhimpur, Guwahati, Jaipur, Amritsar, Patna, and Surat will be able to easily travel to a host of other cities both on SpiceJet’s domestic as well as international network via multiple onward connections from key metros.

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