On the day of setting its foot in Madurai with two new flight services, IndiGo, a low-cost airliner, on Wednesday announced introduction of its third flight from Madurai to Hyderabad on March 26.
Its inaugural flight that landed here from Delhi after a stopover at Chennai was given a water cannon salute by the Airport fire-tenders.
“Madurai is our 37th domestic destination,” said its Director of Corporate Communications Ajay S. Jasra.
Besides, a New Delhi-Madurai-New Delhi (with touchdown in Chennai on both directions), the airliner has also simultaneously launched a Chennai-Madurai-Chennai daily service on Wednesday.
“Our third service – Hyderabad-Madurai daily flights – will commence on March 26. We have plans to operate our international flight to the Gulf from here within a couple of months,” he added.
Mr. Jasra also expressed IndiGo’s intention to fly out of Madurai to the Far East.
IndiGo will be the 6th airliner to operate its services from Madurai after Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Sri Lankan Airlines and Air Carnival.
“All our aircrafts are Airbus A320 with a seating capacity of 180 passengers. Wherever we go we operate daily flights with more options of connectivity to different destinations,” said its Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, Nitin Arora.
Stating that passengers would enjoy a very competitive airfare with IndiGo, he said though the pricing would be dynamic, the lowest prices would be between ₹ 1200 and ₹ 1900.
IndiGo was known for its on time performance.
Madurai Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao, Joint General Manager, Engineering (Civil) of Airports Authority of India, S. Ravichandran, Central Industrial Security Force Commandant Cha, were among those who took part in the inaugural function.
