IndiGo to start 174 new international flights by September; Nairobi, Jakarta, Baku, Tashkent among them

AHMEDABAD: By August, Mumbai will get a direct IndiGo flight to Nairobi in Kenya and Jakarta in Indonesia. And, Delhi will get connected to Tbilisi in Georgia and Baku in Azerbaijan in August, besides Tashkent in Uzbekistan and Almaty in Kazakhstan, in September. The airline is adding 174 new weekly international flights between June and September 2023.

IndiGo will also resume daily flights between Delhi and Hong Kong in August. This flight was suspended three years ago during Covid.

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers said the addition of "these exciting new destinations, new direct flight routes, enhanced flight frequencies and strategic codeshare partnerships will help us expand our footprint across four continents with Africa and Central Asia being penetrated for the first time". "With this expansion in our network, we will now be directly touching 32 international destinations (up from 26), next to our 78 domestic destinations.”

IndiGo said its Middle East expansion plans include launching more direct flights from Dammam to Lucknow, Chennai and Kochi; Abu Dhabi to Goa, Lucknow and Ahmedabad; Ras Al Khaimah to Hyderabad; Bahrain to Kochi; and Jeddah to Ahmedabad over the next few months. There will be an array of increased frequencies between Mumbai-Dhaka in August 2023.

The airline is also planning international flights from North Goa Airport. The airline will commence exclusive flights from Bhubaneshwar to Singapore and Bangkok from June 2023.