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abn · Member Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 113

please try to post all the route developments here

-Cathay Pacific too wants to increase the frequency of its flights to Indian destinations like Mumbai and Delhi. The airline currently operates four flights each week from Mumbai and Delhi.The airline is trying to cater to routes in south India

-SriLankan Airlines is currently in talks with the Indian government to permit them to operate from Pune and Coimbatore.

-Continental Airlineswill also launch daily non-stop flights between Mumbai and Newark from October 31

-Japan Airlines (JAL) is raising its flights to five and
All Nippon Airways (ANA) to seven by September this year

source: The Financial Express
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=162977

-Aeroflot plans to increase its flights to Delhi to 12 a week from seven and those to Mumbai to seven a week from four.Other cities on the airline's radar are Kolkata, Bangalore, Amritsar and Ahmedabad
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andrew · Member Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 212

Interesting that UL wants to link PNQ and Coimbatore. Is there really so much tourist traffic from these ports- or are they instead betting that they could offer cheap international transit fares on to SE Asia and other destinations using their EK partnership instead?

Also CX is painfully slow on any plans to increase their presence in India. They took 10 years to launch DEL- HKG after years of talking about it for soooooo long. Southern destinations ex HKG makes a lot of sense sense and perhaps they will service both the new BLR and HYD airports. However CX is very monopolistic/ protectionist in its outlook. Whilst they want additional flights to India - the Indian Govt has demanded additional fifth freedom traffic rights ex-HKG on teh Trans Pacifc routes in return - something CX have resisted for 15 years now. They know they have 40% of the Indian Trans Pacific traffic and want to keep it that way.....

9W has indicated it will start HKG in 2008, I expect that when CX will get aditonal flights to India and will link either BLR or HYD

Any news on other international airlines trying to link PNQ?