Druk Air cuts flights
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With rising oil prices and a lean tourist season, Bhutan’s national airline – Druk Air – has temporarily cut its flight frequency on several routes, including Delhi and Kolkata. Flights to Bangkok have been reduced to six from eight flights a week, with the Friday flight via Kolkata and the Saturday flight via Dhaka being stopped, The Economic Times reported. “We sometimes have only about 20 passengers when we can carry 114 and, with the increase in the fuel price everywhere in the world, it has now become imperative to maintain costs,” said Druk Air’s Deputy Managing Director Tandin Jamtsho was quoted saying. The airline was also considering raising fares in about a week’s time. Regular flights would resume with the start of the autumn tourist season in October, officials were quoted saying.
The four flights a week on five routes from Paro to Dhaka, Delhi, Gaya, Kathmandu and Kolkata, have been reduced by a flight each, the report said.
The airline expected to save 28% of its operating cost through these measures, the daily said, adding that numbers drop between July and September as less tourists visit Bhutan then.
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