GoAir to launch new flights from Kannur to Dubai, Kuwait

Now, there will be more flights to international destinations from Kannur. Budget airline GoAir has announced that the airline will operate two directs flights from Kannur International Airport to Dubai and Kuwait. Currently, the airline has flight services from Kannur airport to Abu Dhabi and Muscat. The airline in a statement said that flight services on seven new international routes, including Bangkok, Dubai and Kuwait, will be starting from July 19. The flights' operations from Kannur to Dubai will be available from July 25, 2019, it said.

GoAir will operate flights from Mumbai and Delhi to Abu Dhabi and Bangkok, from Mumbai to Muscat, and from Kannur in Kerala Dubai and Kuwait, the airline announced. However,  this is subject to final approvals.

The airline will also have flights from Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai to Maldives and Phuket.  Kuwait, Dubai and Bangkok are the destinations where the airline will press flights into service for the first time. Other routes are already on GoAir's network. GoAir did not have much international presence until recently when Jet Airways ceased operations and vacating space for other airlines. 

The airline, however, has a vast presence in the domestic markets. Of late, it is expanding its wings to overseas destinations. It has operations to the domestic metro city as well as the remote airports. According to the recent reports, the seat occupancy of the airline has increased after Jet Airways debacle.  In the domestic market, the airline has operations in Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jammu, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kannur, Ranchi, among other destinations.