Air India plans first ‘necklace flight’ interlinking five cities including Ahmedabad
February 16, 2017
New Delhi: National passenger carrier Air India on Wednesday said it plans to launch India’s “first necklace flight” this year.
This flight will connect Ahmedabad to Kolkata, Raipur, Indore, Jaipur and New Delhi.
“The unique flight will start from Kolkata in the morning hours onwards to Raipur from where it will head towards Indore and then to Ahmedabad and subsequently Jaipur. It will finally terminate operations in New Delhi in the evening,” said Ashwani Lohani, Chairman and Managing Director, Air India.
Lohani speaking at the travel trade show – SATTE 2017 said Air India will add six new international destinations to its network this year including flights connecting Delhi to Tel Aviv, Washington, Stockholm or Copenhagen, also flights connecting Mumbai to Frankfurt and Nairobi or Johannesburg.
He said Air India is going to base an aircraft at Jaipur to connect the city to Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur by air.
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