IndiGo launches seven new domestic flights

No-frills carrier IndiGo has launched seven new flights on its domestic network from Thursday, including one between Mumbai and Jammu.

IndiGo would be operating 422 flights and connect 33 destinations after this launch.

IndiGo will operate its new daily direct flight between Mumbai and Jammu, and Chennai and Kochi. It would launch second daily flights between Mumbai and Srinagar, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and Trivandrum, Jammu and Srinagar and third direct flight between Mumbai and Kochi, an official statement said.

These sectors offer immense potential given the number of business and leisure travellers flying in and out of these cities, the statement said, adding these flights resonate the airline's expansion plan.

On the international sector, IndiGo would be connecting Mumbai to Muscat with daily direct flights from June 15. India and Oman would see an increase in frequency and would now be connected by seven daily flights in a week, up from four times a week, Ghosh said.

"We are absolutely delighted to enhance our services out of Jammu, Srinagar in the north, Mumbai in the West & Chennai, Trivandrum, Kochi in the South with the launch of these new flights and we are confident that these additional services will prove immensely popular with our flyers,"said Aditya Ghosh, President, IndiGo.

With PTI inputs