Alliance Air starts additional flights to Lakshadweep
India-Maldives row, Alliance Air the only airline that operates to Lakshadweep has started additional flights. Due to a surge in the number of passengers willing to visit Lakshadweep, Alliance Air, the only Indian airline that operates to Lakshadweep, has started additional flights to Kochi-Agatti-Kochi. A senior official of Alliance Air informed that the additional flights will operate two days a week i.e.
on Sunday and Wednesday. Alliance Air, the only airline that runs in Lakshadweep, runs flights between Kochi in Kerala and Agatti island, which has a regional airport serving Lakshadweep. The airlines operate 70-seater aircraft to the island daily.
It is running at full capacity and all tickets till March have been sold out, an official of the airline informed. "We are getting lots of queries on the phone and social media regarding tickets. Following to the huge demand for tickets, an additional flight has been added to the route.
If required frequency of the flight will be increased," the official said. Recently in an Annual General Meeting, Ajay Singh, CEO of SpiceJet also informed that the airline has exclusive rights under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) for Lakshadweep and that they will soon launch flights to Lakshadweep. However, travel portals have reported that they are getting a record number of queries for Lakshadweep.
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