The low-cost carrier Air Asia has resumed operation of three flights daily on the Tiruchi-Kuala Lumpur sector.
Since June 16, the overseas airline had been operating three flights a day on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday and two flights on other days.
However, the airline resumed its operation of three flights on all days from Friday, airport sources said.
While one flight is operated in the morning, the other two were operated in the evening and late night respectively.
The airline is operating Airbus A-320 aircraft in the Tiruchi– Kuala Lumpur sector with 180 seating capacity. Airline sources said the passenger load factor was good.
Travel agents here say that November to January was a time when passenger traffic to Kuala Lumpur from Tiruchi scaled up owing to festival seasons.
Busy seasonA good number of tourists from Kuala Lumpur visit Tiruchi and its neighbouring districts and equally good was the tourist flow from Tiruchi to the Malaysian capital, says M.S. Paramasivam, chairman, Travel Agents Association of India.
The other international operators from Tiruchi are the Sri Lankan Airlines, Tiger Airways, Air India Express, and the Malindo Air. Passenger traffic from the Tiruchi airport had been on the rise over the years.
The Tiruchi airport handled one million passengers during 2013-14. Overseas travellers outnumbered domestic passengers.
