ANA planning to start daily flights to Chennai or Kolkata by 2009-10
Tokyo-based All Nippon Airways (ANA) is currently evaluating the route viability to start daily operations from either Chennai or Kolkata. The airline already has the traffic rights to start daily operations from one more city in India and is likely to commence operations by 2009-10. ANA will deploy the B737 currently operated on Mumbai-Tokyo route with a configuration of all Business class seats (36) for flights to Chennai or Kolkata. The airline will deploy B787 Dreamliner on the Mumbai-Tokyo route. The airline operates six flights a week on the route.
“Once B787 is inducted on the Mumbai route, the airline will introduce two class configurations - First and Business class,” says Kenji Sugino, Director, Administration, Marketing and Sales, ANA. The airline will have a configuration of eight First class seats and 80 Business class seats for the Mumbai route. Currently the airline registers a load factor of 70 per cent with around 80 per cent of the traffic coming in from Mumbai, Pune and Goa with the rest from Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi. Business traffic between India and Japan is increasing by 10 per cent on a yearly basis and the airline is looking at increasing traffic on the Mumbai-Tokyo route by 40 per cent by 2009-10. “In future, we are also intending to launch our website, although we don’t know when this development will materialise,” informed Sugino. Source: travelbizmonitor
Why don’t malaysia airlines restart its Kolkata-Kualalumpur flight? it has operation from other big indian cities.At least they can start a thrice weekly flight.People in Kolkata wants to visit KL will be benefited with that.