Airlines line up new flights as govt allows regular international ops

Airline executives said the increase in flights in summer will be based on market demand

Indian customers will have wider travel options as airlines introduce new flights from the end of March.

While Malaysian Airlines and Turkish Airlines are resuming passenger flights to India after a gap of two years, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group will scale up their existing service in a graded manner in the summer schedule.

Emirates, the largest foreign airline operating in India, too, is looking to restore its pre-Covid-19 schedule of 172 flights per week. This comes as the civil aviation ministry announced the resumption of scheduled international flights from March 27.

“Malaysia Airlines will steadily increase capacity to the cities we operate