MANGALURU: The coastal city of Mangaluru will get extra air connectivity to the Karnataka’s capital with an additional daily flight during the weekdays and an additional flight on Saturday, starting September 7.
The number of daily flights to Bengaluru from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) will go up to five during weekdays/ Sunday; and six on Saturday. The additional flights will be operated by IndiGo till October 28.
At present, IndiGo is operating all four flights daily to Bengaluru.
IndiGo will re-introduce flight 6E 6858 from September 7 adding a fifth daily flight on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru route. This flight will arrive at Mangaluru at 8.35am and depart for Bengaluru as flight 6E 5347 at 9.10am. This will complement other flights on this route, departing for Patna via Bengaluru at 6.50am (6E0255); Kolkata via Bengaluru at 11.35am (6E0172) and Bengaluru (direct) at 4.25pm and 9.50pm (6E0388/6E6859) respectively.
The sixth flight to Bengaluru on Saturday is the result of IndiGo reorganizing the days and time of operation of its Mangaluru-Pune flight on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday and Saturday. Flight 6E 294 will arrive at Mangaluru at 5.50pm and depart for Pune as flight 6E 298 at 6.35pm on Tuesday/Thursday and Sunday. On Saturday, flight 6E359 will arrive at Mangaluru from Bengaluru at 5.50pm and later depart for Pune as flight 6E 298 at 6.35pm.
The changes in flight schedule on Mangaluru-Bengaluru and Mangaluru-Pune sector will increase daily international and domestic flight movements from 38 to 40 from Monday-Friday and 40 to 42 on Saturday and Sunday, stated airport spokesperson adding the airport is in touch with other airline to start flights to MIA. These new flights are likely to materialize in the winter schedule starting October 29.
