(MENAFN- Bangladesh Monitor)
Kochi:
An Air India Express flight from Dubai to Calicut airport was diverted to Kochi in the small hours of Saturday due to bad weather conditions in Kozhikode, airline sources said. AI Express flight with 173 passengers landed at Cochin International Airport here at 2.47 am. It departed from Kochi to Calicut airport at around 9.30 am after nearly seven hours, according to the sources.
Last month, an Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Kochi made an emergency landing at Bengaluru after a fire was noticed in one of the engines. All the passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured, Air India Express said in a statement then.
Meanwhile, the airline earlier this week said that it will operate daily direct flights between Kolkata and Hindon airport in Ghaziabad in Uttar Meanwhile, the airline earlier this week said that it will operate daily direct flights between Kolkata and Hindon airport in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh from August.
According to a statement issued by the airline, Hindon Airport, located in the heart of Ghaziabad, serves as an important secondary airport for the National Capital Region (NCR).
The daily flights from Kolkata to Hindon will begin operations from Independence Day on August 15.
The flight from Kolkata will leave at 7.10 am and reach Hindon at 9.30 am and the return flight from there will take off at 4.25 pm and land in the eastern city at 6.45 pm, the statement said.
Air India Express (AIX) will have over 90 departures per week from Kolkata once the Kolkata-Hindon flights become operational, an airline spokesperson said on Thursday.
The airline will also be adding Kathmandu and Dhaka to its network, Aloke Singh, Managing Director, announced during the CAPA Indian Aviation summit in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The details of these flights will be announced later, the spokesperson said.
Besides flying to Kolkata, the airline will also connect Bengaluru with daily direct flights and Goa with a daily direct flight from Hindon. These flights will be operated from August 1.
Besides operating over 280 flights a week from Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in New Delhi, AIX will be operating from Hindon Airport, ensuring enhanced connectivity to/from other cities in Western UP, Uttarakhand and Haryana, the statement said.
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