Air India's Amritsar-Dubai flight thrice a week

Amritsar, Oct 3: After viably connecting Amritsar to Europe and Canada, Air India today launched its first Amritsar-Dubai flight thrice a week.

The inaugural flight of Air India Express, the low cost subsidiary of Air India, was today flagged off here by Rajya Sabha member M S Gill and Punjab Civil Aviation minister Lal Singh.

The flight is being operated routing Delhi-Amritsar-Dubai on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays with 185-seater all Economy Class configuration Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

The flight from Amritsar will leave at 1125 hrs to reach Dubai at 1310 hrs on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, while the return Dubai-Amritsar flight will be arriving here at 0430 hrs on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, an Air India spokesman here said.

The flight would meet the growing demand of passengers from Punjab and the Gulf, the spokesman said.

The Air India Express has also scheduled to begin its flights to the Gulf soon from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode, Delhi and Mangalore.

UNI