Vistara launches daily flight to Port Blair

Full service passenger carrier Vistara airline on Friday launched operations between New Delhi and Port Blair.

"Vistara, India's fastest growing full service carrier, today inaugurated operations to Port Blair, as its flight UK 747 took off from Delhi for Port Blair via Kolkata," the airline said in a statement.

"With the addition of Port Blair to its rapidly expanding pan-India network, Vistara now serves 18 destinations across the length and breadth of the country."

The passenger carrier said the new service to Port Blair offers a daily flight from Delhi and Kolkata (same aircraft service via Kolkata), with arrival and departure timings that allow for convenient connections to ferry and catamaran services between Port Blair and Havelock Island.

"Delivering on our brand promise to provide seamless, thoughtful and personalised services, we are pleased to introduce a variety of attractively priced packages in cooperation with top travel entities to offer our customers the most convenient travel in the Andamans," said Sanjiv Kapoor, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer of Vistara.

"While Port Blair itself offers a lot to see and do, including the historic Cellular Jail and an excursion to the neighboring Ross Island, we have also timed our flights to offer the most convenient connections to and from the most popular inter-island ferries such as to Havelock Island."

The airline said it has also announced the addition of a third daily flight between Delhi and Kolkata to meet the Durga Puja rush.

The supplementary flight will operate between September 30 and October 12, the airline added.

--IANS

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