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Flight to Jeddah from city launched

Nedumbassery: Air India on Thursday expanded its international operations from Kochi by introducing a new flight in the Kochi-Kozhikode-Jeddah sector with five services a week.

The central zone Inspector General of Police Vincent M. Paul inaugurated the service and issued the first boarding pass at a function held at the airport in the evening. The managing director of the Cochin International Airport Limited, C.G.K. Nair handed over a gift hamper to the agent who sold the first ticket. Airport director A.C.K. Nair and the Air India station manger Michael Joseph were also present.

The flight, AI 963, is scheduled to take off from here at 4.55 p.m. to touch down at Kozhikode by 5.40 p.m. for a stopover. It will depart from Kozhikode at 6.50 p.m. and reach Jeddah at 9.45 p.m. (local time).

On the return leg, AI 962 will start from Jeddah at 11.15 p.m. (local time) to reach Kozhikode at 7.15 a.m. The flight will depart for Kochi after one hour and will land here at 9 a.m.

The service is operated by a Boeing B 747- 400 aircraft with a total capacity of 423 seats with 12 first class and 26 business class seats.

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