Air India Express – Trichy – AbuDhabi

Air India Express launched its twice a week ( Thursday and Saturday) flight connecting Trichy and AbuDhabi .

The flight will depart Chennai at 12.50 p.m. and arrive here at 1.40 p.m. It would leave for Abu Dhabi at 2.30 p.m.

In the return direction, the flight will arrive at Tiruchi from Abu Dhabi at 11.55 p.m. and depart for Chennai at 12.50 a.m. It will reach Chennai at 1.40 a.m.

The airline offers attractive one way fare starting from Rs.6,439 from Tiruchi to Abu Dhabi.

 

New Terminal ready to Open in Trichy

After so many false starts, it looks like the new terminal in Trichy Airport will finally open for public. The date is set at Feb 21st. This is a 11,700 Sq.Ft facility ( 7000sq.ft ground floor and 4700 Sq.ft first floor) with 3 moving platforms / Escalators and  5 Lifts for passenger comforts. It will have 13 Inspection and 16 immigration portals with 300 car parking lot outside. The terminal is 99% ready. So the plan is to open the terminal now ( there is an election coming, you see) and complete the other remaining work later.

Hopefully, this time it will happen. But Let’s wait and see.

Source: Dinamani

 

Daily Service to Dubai From Trichy

AI is planning to increase its already existing thrice  a week service from Trichy – Chennai – Dubai to seven days a week from Mid February. This is in response to the overwhelming response to this service.

AI is also planning to make Trichy a hub for its Trichy – Chennai – Dubai and Trichy- Chennai – Kualalumpur Service ( Coming soon). The Trichy Malaysia service will be thrice a week to start with, but looking at the overwhelming response to Air Asia service from Trichy, this will also become a seven day service very soon.

 

Tourism Package to SriLanka from Trichy

SriLankan Holidays, a travel wing of Srilankan Airlines, is offering ‘Second-Passenger-Travels-at-One-Rupee-Only’  holiday package for Indian Tourists to visit Srilanka’s South west Coast and Colombo. The packages start from Rs.13599 (round trip) and include visa on arrival , accommodation on Bed & Breakfast and airport Transfers. They are available till April 30th , 2009. Jetwing Travels and  Walkers Tours are the exclusive partners in this travel package.

I am not sure how economical this is.  May be some of our visitors from Srilanka can sound off about the value.

Source: TravelBizMonitor

 

Air India Express Expansion

On Friday the low cost subsidiary Air India Express inducted another Boeing 737-800 aircraft increasing its fleet size to 21 aircraft. The new aircraft inducted has ‘shikara on the Dal Lake in Kashmir’ on one side of the tail and an ‘image of a large expanse of the Rajasthan Desert’ on the other side.

In addition to adding aircrafts, the AI expressis also planning  to increase their services.

AI Express is proposing to increase frequency on the Chennai-Trichy-Dubai route from three flights a week to seven flights a week.

Air India Express will also increase the frequency of its flights from three to six flights a week on the Trichy-Kuala Lumpur sector.

You can see the pictures of the new aircrafts here.

 

AI – Super Saver Scheme

Air India has reintroduced the Super Saver scheme again which gives some value for more frequent travelers who combine International and domestic travel in AI.

Under the scheme, a business class coupon with four tickets will cost Rs.47,400 and the one with eight tickets, Rs.1,11,032 (including all taxes). The coupons will have a validity of three months and six months respectively. These can be used to travel on all domestic sectors of the national carrier with codes IC and AI.

The economy class coupon (four tickets) will have a validity of three months and can be used on all the domestic sectors of AI except Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi, Kochi-Delhi, Kozhikode-Delhi, Trichy-Delhi and Coimbatore-Delhi.

Source:The Hindu

 

Air Asia to Malaysia

Air Asia starts its first service from Trichy to KualaLumpur from Nov 01 2008 although the security clearance from DGCA is still awaited.

• The service will be daily.
• The airline would deploy an all-economy class Airbus 320, with a passenger capacity of 180.
• The flight from Kuala Lumpur would arrive to Trichy at 8.55 a.m. and depart at 9.25 a.m. Airports Authority of India officials at the Tiruchi Airport have already cleared the schedule.

 

Airport Expansion Delayed

Right Off the bat, Trichy airport expansion is not delayed. In fact, it is going on as planned. But the AAI has expressed concerns that the expansion work on 17 of the 35 airports targetted for expanded runways are not going according to the plan. This is mainly because of the lack of land availability from State Govt to do the work. The only airport included in this list that is in TN is pondicherry.

The work on these projects was scheduled to start from April this year but the lackadaisical approach of the state governments was delaying the work,” an AAI official said .

Why these expansions are important now more than ever. Because the changing fleet mix in the airline sector.

“These airports have short runways and are not safe during heavy downpour,” ICPA general secretary Vikram Yadav said. “Earlier we had mid-sized aircraft landing at and taking off from these airports, but now Airbus and Boeing aircraft too operate from these airports. So it becomes necessary to expand the runways,” Yadav added.

So what is different here when compared to all the other “plans” that get delayed in India.

The regional airlines, which were planning to launch services to new destinations, put their plans on hold, thanks to the uncertainly over runway expansion. “Operating at smaller airports is a tricky situation and riskier too. We would expand air operations once runways at these airports are upgraded,” MDLR Airlines chief operations officer U.K. Bose said.

That’s the impact not only to the city but to the entire region.

Source: The Econiomic Times

 

New Trichy – Chennai Service

Paramaount Airways is planning to operate twice a day service to chennai from Trichy and will be starting from mid July. The airline is in the process of setting up its office at the airport here and will operate the 70-seater Jet Embraer aircraft initially. The airways has already got clearance from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.  Besides passenger traffic, the airline is also eyeing the cargo traffic from the central districts. Every day, Paramount flights carried 50,000 kg of cargo and it would leave no stone unturned to tap this market too, said the Managing Director of Paramount Airways M. Thiagarajan.

The schedule is not available in paramount website yet.

 

Mihin Lanka resumes service to Trichy

Mihin Lanka Ltd, will resume operations to 5 destinations including Trichy from mid July. They are launching the operations with a lease of A320 aircraft from France. Here is the flight Schedule from their site.

Colombo(CMB)-Tiruchirapalli(TRZ) Tiruchirapalli(TRZ)- Colombo(CMB)
Flight Number	Departure Airport	Dep Trmnl	Departure Time	Arrival Airport	Arr Trmnl	Arrival Time	Frequency	Period
MJ 301	CMB		0600	TRZ		0700	_ TU  _   TH   _   SA  _	01 JUL 08	25 OCT 08
MJ 302	TRZ		0800	CMB		0900	_ TU  _   TH   _   SA  _	01 JUL 08	25 OCT 08
Colombo(CMB)-Tiruchirapalli(TRZ) Tiruchirapalli(TRZ)- Colombo(CMB)
Flight Number	Departure Airport	Dep Trmnl	Departure Time	Arrival Airport	Arr Trmnl	Arrival Time	Frequency	Period
MJ 301	CMB		1000	TRZ		1100	_ _  _   _   _   _  SU	01 JUL 08	27 JUL 08
MJ 302	TRZ		1200	CMB		1300	_ _  _   _   _   _  SU	01 JUL 08	27 JUL 08