Monday, October 22, 2007

Coimbatore-Singapore Silk Air direct flight from October 28

Silk Air, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will launch its Coimbatore-Singapore-Coimbatore weekly thrice direct flight service on October 28. This becomes the first ever connectivity between the two cities.

Ramachandra Menon, Manager India and L. Ravindran, Coimbatore Manager for Silk Air announced this to presspersons on Friday.

Coimbatore becomes the third destination for Silk Air in south India next to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi.

Coimbatore airport has only one international connectivity for Sharjah by Indian and Air Arabia.

Silk Air officials said the new weekly thrice service would make for a capacity injection of 700 seats a week providing a boost to Coimbatore’s trade and tourism and to meet the growing demand for direct international connections to and from the city.

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