Air India increases BKK, HKG, KUL, SIN flights
May 7, 2005, 10:48 am
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Air India increases BKK, HKG, KUL, SIN flights
Air India will increase service to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore this summer.
Bangkok service will increase to 22 weekly movements. This includes 6x weekly nonstop to Delhi, 5x weekly nonstop to Mumbai, 4x weekly nonstop to Shanghai, 2x weekly nonstop to Tokyo Narita and 5x weekly nonstop to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong service will increase to 19 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Delhi, 12x weekly direct to Mumbai (daily via Delhi, 5x weekly via Bangkok), 3x weekly nonstop to Osaka, 4x weekly nonstop to Seoul Incheon, 5x weekly nonstop to Bangkok.
Singapore service will increase to 19 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Chennai, 3x weekly nonstop to Mumbai, 4x weekly nonstop to Delhi, 2x weekly nonstop to Hyderabad and 3x weekly nonstop to Jakarta.
Kuala Lumpur service will increase to 13 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Chennai, 3x weekly nonstop to Mumabi and 3x weekly nonstop to Delhi.
Bangkok service will increase to 22 weekly movements. This includes 6x weekly nonstop to Delhi, 5x weekly nonstop to Mumbai, 4x weekly nonstop to Shanghai, 2x weekly nonstop to Tokyo Narita and 5x weekly nonstop to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong service will increase to 19 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Delhi, 12x weekly direct to Mumbai (daily via Delhi, 5x weekly via Bangkok), 3x weekly nonstop to Osaka, 4x weekly nonstop to Seoul Incheon, 5x weekly nonstop to Bangkok.
Singapore service will increase to 19 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Chennai, 3x weekly nonstop to Mumbai, 4x weekly nonstop to Delhi, 2x weekly nonstop to Hyderabad and 3x weekly nonstop to Jakarta.
Kuala Lumpur service will increase to 13 weekly movements. This includes daily nonstop to Chennai, 3x weekly nonstop to Mumabi and 3x weekly nonstop to Delhi.
May 8, 2005, 11:26 pm
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It's great that AI is finally talking standardized timings for their SEAsia flights! It used to be a crap shoot earlier.
Together with very creative scissor/hub ops in SIN/BKK/HKG, AI has a much more compelling story now.
But it seems like AI didn't talk to IC while scheduling their flights. For instance, the new AI standardized timings MAA-SIN-MAA. 3 of the 4 nonstops on the SIN-MAA sector - one each from IC, SQ and now AI depart SIN / arrive MAA within a spread of 40 minutes. SQ has good reason to stick with these times - the others do not.
Maybe AI should get IC to change the schedule of their A320.
Together with very creative scissor/hub ops in SIN/BKK/HKG, AI has a much more compelling story now.
But it seems like AI didn't talk to IC while scheduling their flights. For instance, the new AI standardized timings MAA-SIN-MAA. 3 of the 4 nonstops on the SIN-MAA sector - one each from IC, SQ and now AI depart SIN / arrive MAA within a spread of 40 minutes. SQ has good reason to stick with these times - the others do not.
Maybe AI should get IC to change the schedule of their A320.
May 12, 2005, 4:03 pm
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And it's a nice, recently-remodeled, low-hassle airport (except that sometimes it takes forever for international luggage to emerge). Wonder of wonders, the domestic and international terminals are next to each other rather than across the runways. This probably violates some kind of fundamental Indian principle. No wonder Air-India avoids CCU.
May 13, 2005, 8:12 am
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Recently did a domestic to intl transfer in MAA and believe it or not, they are almost in the same building and not even 3 minutes of walking apart! Even closer than in CCU. Also pretty much ignored by AI. 
