Nedumbassery: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has announced its summer schedule which will come into effect from March 27, 2022, and will be operational till October 29, 2022. CIAL will have 1,190 weekly air traffic movements against 848 during the ongoing winter schedule.
CIAL’s summer schedule will see 20 airlines operating to destinations abroad among which 16 are International carriers operating 261 weekly departures. Indigo tops the list with 42 weekly departures to International destinations whereas Air India Express will have 38 departure operations weekly. Air India Express – 38, Air Asia Berhad – 21, Ethihad – 21, Emirates – 14, Oman Air – 14, Qatar Air – 14, Saudi Arabian – 14, Kuwait Air – 8, Thai Air – 4, Srilankan – 10, Gulf Air – 7, Fly Dubai – 3 are the prominent carriers operating frequent weekly services. There will be 44 weekly departures to Dubai alone whereas Abu Dhabi comes second with 42 operations from Kochi.
Air India Express will continue its three weekly operations to London and Thai Air Asia will resume its operations from Kochi in June, with four weekly direct flights to Bangkok. After a hiatus of 2 years, Air Asia Berhad will be having daily services to Kula Lumpur from March itself.
CIAL has scheduled 668 domestic operations for the summer season offering connectivity with 13 cities in the country which includes 63 weekly flights to Delhi, 55 to Mumbai, 39 to Hyderabad, 49 to Chennai, 79 to Bangalore and 7 to Kolkata. There will be a daily flight to Pune, Trivandrum, Mysore, Kannur, Hubli and Agati, Ahmedabad.
CIAL which had been handling 10 million passengers a year during the pre-pandemic era implemented a slew of measures to increase the traffic during the period. CIAL handled a total of 43,06,661 passengers during the whole year of 2021. Of that, 18,69,690 were international passengers. CIAL’s passenger volume has almost increased by a million in 2021 when compared to that of 2020, said a press release from CIAL.
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