IndiGo to start flying from India to Kuwait and Abu Dhabi from next month

Budget carrier IndiGo today said it will add Kuwait and Abu Dhabi to its international destination from October this year.

Budget carrier IndiGo today said it will add Kuwait and Abu Dhabi to its international destination from October this year.

The carrier will operate a daily flight from Chennai to Kuwait and from Calicut to Abu Dhabi from mid-October. Besides, it will operate a daily flight from Abu Dhabi to Kochi, a statement issued by the airline said.

Beginning October 1, it will also operate a daily flight between Doha and Thiruvananthapuram and a daily flight between Doha and Ahmedabad.

On the domestic sector, IndiGo will become the first domestic airline to introduce services connecting Port Blair with Hyderabad and Vadodara. These flights will commence from September 2018.

In addition, the airline will operate its first daily return flight between Surat and Chennai, daily non-stop return service between Delhi and Imphal, direct flights to Vijayawada from Delhi.

"We will operate the first flight between Kuwait and Chennai and Calicut and Abu Dhabi starting October this year. It also gives us immense pleasure to add 24 additional flights to 6E network," the statement said.

"IndiGo has completed 12 years of successful operations in the India market as a low-cost carrier, and adding new flights to its network will further augment the connectivity that we aspire to provide to our customers," it said quoting IndiGo's chief commercial officer William Boulter.

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