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B772 · Member Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 167

Times of India 27/3/07 reports that the following airlines will either launch new services or expand services to Kolkata (CCU) shortly :

QR,AIX,LH,GMG .

The report further says that QR is scouting for ofice space in the city which makes its launch imminent. QR will launch a daily service between Doha and Kolkata.

Air India Express will announce its launch from Kolkata very shortly. The possible routes are CCU-BKK-HKG (much needed direct service to HKG), CCU-BKK-SIN and CCU-BKK-KUL.

LH which currently operates a three times a week FRA-CCU service has informed the CM that it plans on expanding this service to a daily one soon.

GMG airlines will double its flights from the city to DAC and add a flight every week to Chittagong.

IC has only recently doubled its services from Kolkata to Kathmandu.

Good times ahead ...

Nimish

Karan69 · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 1334

Congrats to CCU on getting the much needed international operations of LH QR and AIX with regards to AIX,

Even i do not understand the reason why they want to operate via BKK maybe making it a scissors hub when they perhaps later launch services from BOM/DEL/BLR/HYD to BKK and offer the connections to the KUL/HKG/SIN,

But in a way they also compete in an oversaturated SE Asian market.

But from an operations prosective they would only have to dedicate 3 737-800s for all 8 city pairs

Karan

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

QR has the following a/cs on order

2 A330-200

4 A330-300

1 A340-600

these are some of the a/cs they will be getting soon probably then

CCU , NAG , AMD can happen

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

after long time reading in your forum, i would like to write here also something. so hi to everybody!
i would love to see more int. flights to ccu. i'm flying to india every year, and specially to kolkata because i love this city, and well my mother also lives there. its always very complicated finding a flight from europe to ccu. i can remember flying with aeroflot,stopped, klm, stopped, royal jordanien, stopped, and british airways which is now the only possibility, because lh is just to expensive for me. pricedifference LH-BA 400 euros, which is a lot of money. Last time i was in kolkata february and march with ba from vienna via london, and the inbound and outbound flight of ccu was totally crowded, also the business class. i was told that the problem for airlines flying to ccu is, that ccu isn't a high yield flight,thats why i was surprised. QR would be a very good alternative to BA because it would avoid, flying round the corner, so only in one direction.
i once read here that also AZ wants to launch flights to ccu.is this right?
wouldn't it be a problem with to many airlines departing from ccu international at the same time, as it is very small?
well i'm just looking forward coming again to ccu, hopefully very soon, best city of india.probally summer, or next winter.
bye willy

B772 · Member Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 167

Suggest that you try either of the following the next time incase QR doesnt start up by then :

Emirates via DXB
Gulf Air via BAH or MCT
Air India via London Heathrow

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

emirates is nice, but with a 22hours stopover in dxb and nearly the same price of lh. all other flights are flights from london,which is a big difference.

VABBy · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 823 Location: DEL

Nimish · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:11 am Post subject:

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

well its not an alternative to ba. more expensive and 22 hours stay is really a long time. i asked last february and ek only book you a room, but you have to pay on your own. not sure if this info is right, ek-office told me. visa is free for european citizen

AMR747 · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:49 am Post subject:

LH currently offers a return fare of Euro 779 from Austria to CCU for April and May 2007.

[quote="flyindia"]after long time reading in your forum, i would like to write here also something. so hi to everybody!
i would love to see more int. flights to ccu. i'm flying to india every year, and specially to kolkata because i love this city, and well my mother also lives there. its always very complicated finding a flight from europe to ccu. i can remember flying with aeroflot,stopped, klm, stopped, royal jordanien, stopped, and british airways which is now the only possibility, because lh is just to expensive for me. pricedifference LH-BA 400 euros, which is a lot of money. Last time i was in kolkata february and march with ba from vienna via london, and the inbound and outbound flight of ccu was totally crowded, also the business class. i was told that the problem for airlines flying to ccu is, that ccu isn't a high yield flight,thats why i was surprised. QR would be a very good alternative to BA because it would avoid, flying round the corner, so only in one direction.
i once read here that also AZ wants to launch flights to ccu.is this right?
wouldn't it be a problem with to many airlines departing from ccu international at the same time, as it is very small?
well i'm just looking forward coming again to ccu, hopefully very soon, best city of india.probally summer, or next winter.
bye willy[/quote]

Nimish · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

thx nimish[/list][/list]

B772 · Member Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 167

Does anyone have an idea of the Loads some of the international flights out of CCU ? Does the traffic out of the city demand the current number of flights as well as the new ones in the pipeline ?

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

i think the demand is there,otherwise you wouldn't here always the purpose of several arlines (LH,BA) to increase flights to CCU. The only thing i think, is that the international airport can't handle to many flights.

G-BYGB · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

AA or CO had expressed their desire to start a direct flight to CCU.I saw this on news channel once.I think it was last year.Does anyone know about this?
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AMR747 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:07 am Post subject:

I think this will be a range issue for AAs 777 from ORD or JFK to CCU.
AA will probably look at BOM before any other indian destination is considered.

[quote="G-BYGB"]AA or CO had expressed their desire to start a direct flight to CCU.I saw this on news channel once.I think it was last year.Does anyone know about this?[/quote]

AMR747 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:07 am Post subject:

Thanks.

Hi flyindia and AMR747 - welcome to AI.net![/quote]

B772 · Member Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 167

You're probably right, BOM is a more attractive market than any other Indian airport. Despite that I am of the opinion that CCU should get a direct non stop or 1 stop service to the USA given the number of Bengalis now flying from the US to Kolkata. Chicago with its huge Bengali population should be the best bet. The international terminal though needs to be completely overhauled. Any updates on QR and AIX's impending launch in the city of joy ????

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

the demand is for sure there, for a non-stop flight to us. can remember, that hardly anybody was travelling to europe on the flights i were travelling, all with connecting tickets to the us.
will be interesting the impact on european carriers, when there will be more and more non-stop services US-India!

flyindia · Member Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Austria

any new news about kolkata?
rgds