IndiGo plans flights from Dubai to New Delhi and Mumbai
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Budget carrier IndiGo will soon start services between Dubai and New Delhi and Dubai and Mumbai, company officials was quoted saying in Dubai.The flights between Dubai and New Delhi will begin in September and those connecting Mumbai a month later, The Hindu reported.”This is our first foray in the Middle East. For a lot of people who travel from this part to India, every dirham counts. People work very hard here and should not be paying exorbitant prices for a three-hour leg,” IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh told a press conference there.Once the flights commence, IndiGo will be the second no-frills Indian airline and the fourth low-cost carrier to establish a route between the two countries. Air India Express, fly Dubai and Air Arabia fly between the UAE and different Indian cities as well.Ghosh did not rule out connecting other cities in the UAE, including Ras al Khaimah, with India in the future.Indian expatriates from the RAK recently requested flights home from the emirate, rather than having to travel to Sharjah or Dubai, he was reported saying.The airline will also start operations to Trivandrum and Kochi and Kolkata by the end of this year and connect Muscat with the sub-continent from October.
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