Cochin Airport's summer schedule to accommodate 30 per cent more flights
29 Mar 2008
Thiruvananthapuram: Cochin International Airport's newly released summer schedule shows a growth of 30 per cent in aircraft landings. The schedule comes into effect from today.
The new schedule will accommodate 451 landings per week, of which 256 will be domestic and 195 international.
The 2007 winter schedule, effective from October to March, had provided for 346 landings, of which 151 were in the international sector and 195 in the domestic.
As for international flights, Kochi is now connected to regular Middle-East destinations such as Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Al-Ain, Riyadh, Dammam, Salalah, Jeddah and Bandar Abbas.
As for carriers operating services to Kochi, Jet Airways has the maximum number of frequencies with 77 weekly landings, both domestic and international. Jet is followed by Indian Airlines (66), Kingfisher Airlines (42), Air India Express (41), Air Deccan (35), Paramount Airways (28), Inter Globe Aviation (28), Air India (16), Air Arabia (14), JetLite (14), SpiceJet (14), SriLankan Airlines (11), Emirates Airline (10), Oman Air (seven), Qatar Airways (seven), Silk Air (seven), Gulf Air (seven), Go Air (seven), Etihad Airways (six), Kuwait Airways (five), Saudi Arabian Airlines (three), Mahan Air (three) and Al-Jazeera Airways (three).
