Budget carrier Spicejet on Wednesday announced its 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.