Kochi: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has announced its summer schedule which will be effective from 26 March to 28 October 2023. A total of 1,484 weekly operations is the highlight of this schedule against 1,202 operations for the ongoing winter schedule. Additional services to Mumbai, Banglore and Hyderabad are also enlisted in the summer schedule.
CIAL’s summer schedule will see 31 airlines among which 23 are international carriers operating 332 weekly departures to international destinations. Indigo tops the list with 63 weekly departures to international destinations whereas Air India Express will have 44 departure operations weekly. SpiceJet-21, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi-20, Air Asia Berhad-18, Air Arabia-14, Emirates Air-14, Etihad Air-14, Oman Air-14, Saudi Arabian-14, and Singapore Airlines- 14 are other prominent carriers operating frequent weekly services.
There will be 51 weekly departures to Abu Dhabi alone whereas Dubai comes second with 45 operations from Kochi. Air Arabia Abu Dhabi will operate additional 10 weekly frequencies whereas an average of 5 daily flights to Kuala Lumpur will be operated by Air Asia Berhad.
SpiceJet announced additional daily flights to Male and Riyadh whereas Indigo operates additional daily flights to Dammam and Bahrain. Indigo’s daily flight to Ras-Al-Khaima led to the commencement of a new sector Ras-Al-Khaimah. Air India, Indigo, and Vistara will operate additional daily flights to Mumbai, Go First as well as Indigo to Hyderabad and Indigo and Akasa Air will operate daily flights to Bangalore.
The domestic sector-wise weekly flight status in CIAL’s 2023 summer schedule includes 131 flights to Banglore, 73 to Mumbai, 64 to Delhi and 55 to Hyderabad, 35 to Chennai and 7 flights each to Agathi, Ahmedabad, Goa, Kannur, Kolkata, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram. This makes a total weekly movement of 742 arrivals and departures each.
During the post-pandemic period, CIAL is almost witnessing 96% of passengers at par with that of the pre-pandemic era. Additionally, CIAL has recently successfully commissioned its exquisite Business Jet Terminal which eyes a surge in affordable chartered flying.
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