LH to PNQ [Pune, India] [merged]
Sep 22, 2012, 9:53 am
#46
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Its a small airport managed by the Indian airforce..( It also serves as an Indian Airforce base ).. You can see IAF fighter jets and helicopters on the opposite side of the runaway from the terminal..
IIRC, LH is the only international flight operating from there other than Air India Express.. and yes, its quite near the city center ( 10-30mins, depending on where to go in the city and time of day/night)..
IIRC, LH is the only international flight operating from there other than Air India Express.. and yes, its quite near the city center ( 10-30mins, depending on where to go in the city and time of day/night)..
Feb 16, 2013, 3:28 am
#47
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Have not flown this route, but I may. Ran into a stunning Flight Attendant that was on layover in Pune. flight crew stays at Westin Pune. I may have to start using this connection on by travels back and forth North America. much better than driving to BOM
Feb 17, 2013, 9:38 pm
#48
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If you are anyways flying LH to BOM or ok with LH or * A carriers and need to be in PNQ/ surroundings, this is a very good option IMHO..
Feb 18, 2013, 4:47 pm
#49
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Feb 18, 2013, 7:32 pm
#50
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But for someone needing to go to PNQ surrounding areas ( for eg. Solapur, Kolhapur etc)..
Feb 18, 2013, 8:50 pm
#51
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I flew 9W to MAA the next day in November and there were other LCC options too. I thought there would be 3-4 flights a day to the major cities atleast.
Feb 18, 2013, 10:16 pm
#52
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DEL is well connected .. MAA has few flights a day but like you said but IIRC no full service carrier has direct flts now.. Jet has it via Hyd etc.. very few direct flights to Eastern India ( CCU/ GAU etc)..and many a times the flight prices are relatively expensive ( as compared to BOM) just due to the fact that few flights operating on that particular sector..
Feb 19, 2013, 8:51 pm
#53
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hmm..not really IMHO ..
DEL is well connected .. MAA has few flights a day but like you said but IIRC no full service carrier has direct flts now.. Jet has it via Hyd etc.. very few direct flights to Eastern India ( CCU/ GAU etc)..and many a times the flight prices are relatively expensive ( as compared to BOM) just due to the fact that few flights operating on that particular sector..
DEL is well connected .. MAA has few flights a day but like you said but IIRC no full service carrier has direct flts now.. Jet has it via Hyd etc.. very few direct flights to Eastern India ( CCU/ GAU etc)..and many a times the flight prices are relatively expensive ( as compared to BOM) just due to the fact that few flights operating on that particular sector..
Jan 4, 2014, 9:40 pm
#54
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to the rescheduling on this flight768 now departs FRA at 1920h and arrives PNQ 0800 next day
769 departs PNQ at 0930 and arrives FRA 1555 which absolutely kills connection options to the US.
Jan 5, 2014, 8:58 am
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this is surprising since LH usually has good timings for all Indian flights into FRA / MUC as these are good feeder's for their other global connections Westwards and within Europe..
Jan 5, 2014, 9:58 am
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Jan 5, 2014, 1:23 pm
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PNQ is a tricky airfield, since the place is owned/operated by the military. The new timings may not be voluntarily chosen... @:-)
Jan 5, 2014, 3:06 pm
#58
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" is just my personal preference. The schedule change now means that there is only 1 United flight out of FRA that allows us to connect to LA the same day (and even that is a stretch since IAD-LAX arrives at 1am).
Jan 16, 2014, 5:55 am
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I booked the flight for May and is scheduled for normal times...
Jan 16, 2014, 6:42 am
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There was a "cryptic" piece of news on ch-aviation which could be related to the schedule change.
Air India (AI, Mumbai Int'l) has asked the Indian Air Force (Delhi Int'l) to explain why it chose to allow Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int'l) inbound-flights to Pune to use arrival/departure slots reserved for IAF fighter jets. The Indian Express says Air India has taken the Air Force to task over its perceived bias towards Lufthansa given that its own request for a waiver had been met with silence. "We have written to the IAF asking it to accommodate our flights too. We are hoping for a clearance," said Dhairyasheel Vandekar, station manager, Air India. In a statement, IAF officials said the Lufthansa's exception had been made bearing in mind the fact that "it's a European carrier operating within different time zones". Wing Commander R R Lall, spokesperson of IAF's 2 Wing, said: "The schedules have been agreed upon by airlines and approved by the Air Headquarters at the highest level."