Media release
Mangaluru, Mar 27: Airlines operating from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) are all set to offer more weekly seats across sectors during the ensuing summer 2024.
Starting March 31, 27,670 seats will be available to 17 destinations during Summer, a 2% increase compared to winter 2023 with 15 destinations.
The summer schedule effective from March 31 up to October 24, will see airline operate new domestic route from Tiruchirappalli to coastal city of Mangaluru and the same flight will continue to Jeddah on its international run.
As per the DGCA approved schedule that Air India, Air India Express and IndiGo have filed with the Airport for the summer schedule, the coastal city of Mangaluru shall have connectivity to nine domestic destinations – seven direct and eight international destinations, respectively.
Airlines will also provide through connectivity to Calicut and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala via Bengaluru. Other domestic destinations with direct flights from Mangaluru are Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, with Tiruchirappalli the new addition.
Overseas, the airlines are providing direct flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Muscat, Doha, Kuwait, Bahrain, with Jeddah being the new connection. Air India Express which offers connectivity to all above destinations will introduce a weekly flight to Jeddah from April 3.
The airline increased flights to Damman to four per week from March 12. Air Indian Express and IndiGo connect to Dubai (18 flights/week), Abu Dhabi and Dammam, (4/week); Muscat (3/week); Doha (2/week) and Bahrain and Jeddah (1/week) respectively.
On the domestic front, IndiGo will operate all its five schedules each day to Bengaluru in the summer with Airbus aircraft as against 2 Airbus and 6 ATRs now. This will ramp up seat availability to Bengaluru.
Air India Express too will operate two daily flights to Bengaluru. IndiGo will increase its flights to Chennai to two ATRs per day as against two ATRs now every alternate day starting Monday. Mumbai will have 5 flights/day; Hyderabad 2 ATR/day; Delhi 1 flight/day, Pune – 3 flights/week, and Tiruchirappalli 1 flight/week.