New Delhi, Jan 15 (IBNS): Aviation major SpiceJet on Tuesday flagged off a daily direct flight on the Kolkata-Lilabari route, under the regional connectivity scheme, UDAN.
The un-served market of Lilabari, located in the Lakhimpur district of Assam, is the airline’s ninth destination under UDAN. The route was awarded to SpiceJet under UDAN II.
SpiceJet is India’s largest and most organized regional player operating a fleet of 45 Boeing MAX and NG aircraft and 27 Bombardier Q400 planes. With the launch of the new flights, SpiceJet now operates a total of 54 flights in and out of North East and 6 flights within the North East Region.
Debojo Maharshi, Chief Marketing Officer - SpiceJet, said, “Lilabari is SpiceJet’s first destination in Assam under the UDAN scheme and we are extremely delighted to launch services on the Kolkata-Lilabari route. Enhancing connectivity to the North-East has always been on top of our agenda and hence connectivity to Lilabari holds high importance. Owing to its proximity to Arunachal Pradesh, the airport will serve both the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.”
Passengers from Lilabari can now easily travel to a host of other cities both on SpiceJet’s domestic as well as international network via multiple onward connections from Kolkata.
With the addition of the Kolkata-Lilabari-Kolkata flight, SpiceJet now operates 23 flights under UDAN on the routes of Delhi-Kishangarh-Delhi, Kolkata-Pakyong-Kolkata, Guwahati-Pakyong-Guwahati, Mumbai-Porbandar, Mumbai-Kandla-Mumbai, Hyderabad-Puducherry-Hyderabad, Jaipur-Jaisalmer-Jaipur, Delhi-Adampur-Delhi, Ahmedabad-Jaisalmer-Ahmedabad, Surat-Jaisalmer-Surat and Delhi-Kanpur-Delhi.
With a focus on enhancing connectivity, SpiceJet has also launched flights on Kolkata-Jabalpur, Hyderabad-Jabalpur, Hyderabad-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Pune, Hyderabad-Coimbatore, Chennai-Varanasi and Chennai-Shirdi routes starting from Jan 1, 2019.
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