Budget carrier SpiceJet has 19 new flights to its schedule, building up domestic connectivity with Mumbai, the airline said in a statement. The new additions will start at the end of the first week of May and will be daily flights with the exception of one. With this, it has become the first carrier to launch daily direct flights to Mumbai-Madurai, it said. Also, the company has added flights to routes Mumbai-Jammu (via Srinagar), Mumbai-Dehradun-Mumbai and Mumbai-Guwahati-Mumbai.
The move is in line with SpiceJet’s bid to connect non-metro and small cities with major hubs, it added. Other than the introduction of new flights, the company will also increase flight frequency on certain routes such as Srinagar-Jammu with three flights, Mumbai-Chennai-Mumbai with four flights and Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai with eight flights. The company will be deploying 737-800 Boeing aircraft to these routes.
