Air India enhances flights to Bali and Kuala Lumpur

Air India’s winter schedule push is concrete: the carrier has added 174 weekly flights across domestic and short-haul international routes. It has increased Delhi–Kuala Lumpur and Delhi–Denpasar (Bali) services to 10 weekly frequencies. That change is part of a wider network tweak that kicks in across late October through early December.

Air India enhances connectivity to Bali and Kuala Lumpur.

First up, Air India is adding more flights between Delhi and Kuala Lumpur. So, the airline will increase its existing daily flights to 10 flights a week, adjusting the schedule to 5 days a week. The flights will be operated with the A320neo, in the three-class configuration. The flight timings will now be:

AI2384 DEL1330 – 2140KUL Tu,We,Fr,Sa,Su A32N
AI2386 DEL2250 – 0700 (+1) KUL Mo,Th,Fr,Sa,Su A32N

AI2385 KUL0805 – 1130DEL Mo,Tu,Fr,Sa,Su A32N
AI2387 KUL2240 – 0205 (+1) DEL Tu,We,Fr,Sa,Su A32N

These double flights will allow passengers to make a morning or evening flight to Kuala Lumpur, if they so want, and also give them choices on the return to India. Remember, Kuala Lumpur is a crowded lane. Malaysia-based carriers (Malaysia Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia, AirAsia) all have flights into Delhi.

On Delhi–Denpasar (Bali), which skews strongly towards leisure, the move is similar. The airline is reorganising its flight schedules to offer double flights five days a week. This is two years after Vistara launched the route. Only in this case, the capacity is going back to that of a 787-9, with two A321s operating the route.

AI 2147 DEL 0300 – 1335DPS Mo, We,Fr, Sa,Su A321N
AI 2145 DEL2155 – 0830 (+1)DPS Mo, We, Fr, Sa, Su A321N

AI 2146 DPS1000 – 1500DEL Mo, Tu, Th, Sa, Su A321N
AI 2148 DPS1435 – 1935DEL Mo, We, Fr,Sa,Su A321N

The winter season spike should push load factors higher on weekend departures.

Massive Domestic Expansion as well

Air India is adding a whole lot of seasonal flights, along with numerous additions that have no end date, to service the upswing in weddings and tourism in the days ahead.

Seasonal additions of flights to Rajasthan, effective 26 October:

• Delhi-Jaipur (new route): Introducing 3x daily flights
• Delhi-Jaisalmer (new route): Introducing 2x daily flights
• Delhi-Udaipur: Increasing from 2x to 3x daily flights
• Mumbai-Jaipur: Increasing from 3x to 4x daily flights
• Mumbai-Udaipur: Increasing from 3x to 4x daily flights
• Mumbai-Jodhpur: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights

More flights to Madhya Pradesh, effective 26 October:

• Delhi-Indore: Increasing from 3x to 4x daily flights
• Delhi-Bhopal: Increasing from 2x to 3x daily flights
• Mumbai-Indore: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights

More flights to Gujarat, effective 26 October:

• Mumbai-Bhuj: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Delhi-Rajkot: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights

Other frequency additions, effective 26 October:

• Delhi-Varanasi: Increasing from 2x to 3x daily flights
• Delhi-Raipur: Increasing from 2x to 3x daily flights
• Delhi-Port Blair: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Delhi-Aurangabad: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Delhi-Guwahati: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Delhi-Nagpur: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Mumbai-Dehradun: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Mumbai-Patna: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights
• Mumbai-Amritsar: Increasing from 1x to 2x daily flights

You can book your tickets on the Air India Website.

Bottomline

There will be numerous flights on routes across India, and more flights will be added to the winter destination, Bali, and to Kuala Lumpur in the coming days with Air India. This should make travel for weddings and tourism relatively cheaper compared to what it would have been without these flights already in the system.

What do you think of Air India’s plans to add more flights this winter?

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