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karatecatman · Guest

Kingfisher Airlines has announced the launch of direct flights from Guwahati to Imphal. There will be 3 flights a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at very convenient times for day-return travelers. The flight schedule will also offer convenient connections for pax from Imphal to Kolkata and in the return direction as well.
With the launch of this service, Kingfisher Airlines will connect 27 cities with 153 flights a day.

lambuhere1 · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

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superman · Member Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 42 Location: USA

I believe they are also starting the first non stop flight between Mumbai and Guwahati before the end of this month. Check the Flight Schedules link on KF's website. That will be an interesting > 3 hour flight connecting the East with the West. Looking forward to reading a trip report by anyone who travels this route.
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shivendrashukla · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

What equipment would be used for IMF?? Will it be ATR or Just my guess the A319 flight that goes either to Dibrugarh or Agartala, are they dropping one of those to accomodate Imphal or is it a new flight?

Yeah even i noticed the mumbai-guwahati flight. But surprisingly there still isn't Delhi-GAU flight. I would absolutely love that. I am a FF to GAU.

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TKMCE · Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 957

KF flight from GAU to IMF is being introduced by withdrawing the thrice weekly flight on the GAU DIB sector. This is the extension of the daily flight BLR HYD CCU GAU .On the other days (except SUN) of the week, the flight will continue to fly to IXA from GAU.

Keeping in mind that IMF GAU has heavy competition with DN and Indigo flying daily, Jet five times weekly and Indian twice weekly (and a fare of Rs 1200 all inclusive to boot!), the impact of KF on this route will be marginal to say the least.

Even on CCU IMF, there is lot of competitioon with Jet operating six times a week, IC daily and DN twice daily (one non stop), KF with its thrice weekly services via GAU cannot expect to get much loads.

You of course now have the convenience of flying direct (same plane service) from BLR to IMF via HYD CCU and GAU, but in many cases it will be probably a quicker alternative and defintely cheaper to transfer via CCU.

15a · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 271 Location: Bangalore

IT is also starting double daily flights from Mumbai to Indore and Nagpur in early May - both A319 services..the schedules are on their site.
Plus chennai Coimbatore double daily ATR services and Chennai Trichy and Chennai Madurai - also ATR