Spicejet to add 3 new flights,6 addl frequencies in summer

Low-cost carrier Spicejet today announced it summer schedule with three new routes and six more frequencies of its flight on some sectors.
The three new services are on the Mumbai-Udaipur, Tirupati-Vijayawada and Vijayawada-Vishakhapatnam sectors effective April 16, the airline said in a statement, adding it will enhance frequencies between Delhi-Srinagar, Hyderabad- Chennai, Delhi-Dharamshala, Chennai-Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad-Bengaluru from March 27.
Recently the airline has started connecting Tirupati from Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad apart from Dubai, Colombo and Bangkok from Vijaywada and Tirupati.
With these new services, the airline will increase its operation to 306 daily flights from 240 in the last summer.

To tap the rising leisure and business travellers and considering the tourist and commercial demand, it has increased the frequencies on the Delhi-Srinagar (2nd non-stop flight) Hyderabad-Chennai, (4th non-stop flight) and Hyderabad-Bengaluru (4th direct flight) among others.
The airline has also increased its seating capacity on various domestic routes by changing planes, from the 78-seater Bombardier Q400s to Boeing 737s which can carry 186 passengers on the Pune-Goa and Delhi-Dehradun sectors.

The second largest low-cost carrier Spicejet operates 293 daily flights to 40 destinations, 34 domestic and six international with its 26 Boeing 737NGs and two Airbus A320s along with 14 Bombardier Q-400s planes.

The summer schedule, which will begin from March 27, the domestic airlines will operate 14,869 flights every week, an increase of nearly 19 per cent compared to the year-ago. The number of departures per week in the summer schedule during 2015 stood at 12,533 flights.
The summer schedule extends from the last Sunday of March to the last Saturday of October.
India's domestic air passenger traffic grew by a whopping 20.2 per cent in 2015 over the previous year, helped by higher economic growth and increase in number of flights across domestic airlines network, according to the global airlines body IATA.