The main international gateway airports in India are located at Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad. Other airports having international flights include Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Mangalore, Madurai, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam and Kozhikode in the southern region, Goa, Pune and Ahmedabad in western India, Varanasi, Amritsar, Lucknow and Jaipur in northern India, Nagpur in central India and Bhubaneswar, Gaya andGuwahati in eastern India.
Flying to India
India has fairly extensive direct air connections to all the continents (ca 55 countries) except South and Central America where currently no direct flights are available from India. Over 70 international airlines fly presently to India. Air India (incl. Air India Express, a low-cost regional carrier),
India's national airline, flies to destinations in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and North America. Jet Airways, a private Indian airline, flies to regional destinations including Kathmandu, Bangkok, Colombo, Singapore, Riyadh, Damman, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat and Sharjah in addition to serving long-haul destinations including London, Amsterdam, Paris and Toronto. Spicejet serves South Asian destinations while IndiGo, another Indian low-cost carrier, serves regional destinations including Dubai, Muscat, Kathmandu, Singapore and Bangkok.
a number of countries such as the UAE, United States, Japan, UK, Belgium, Germany, Bahrain and Hong Kong to name a few. The result of these new agreements is an increase in the number of flights and new point-to-point connections.
Announced New Air Routes to India
- AirAsia: Johor Bahru to Kolkata (wef Nov 28, 5xweekly)
- Air India: Delhi to Los Angeles (wef ca Nov, 3xweekly) and Chandigarh to Bangkok (wef Oct 29, 4xweekly)
- Alitalia: Rome to Delhi (wef Oct 29, daily)
- Finnair: Helsinki to Goa (wef Nov 29, 2xweekly) - seasonal flight
- Indonesia Air Asia: Denpasar Bali via Kuala Lumpur to Kolkata (wef Oct 1, 4xweekly)
- Jet Airways: Bengaluru to Amsterdam (wef Oct 29 2017, daily), Chennai to Paris (wef Oct 29 2017, 5xweekly) and Delhi to Riyadh (wef Oct 29 2017, daily)
- KLM: Amsterdam to Mumbai (wef Oct 29, 3xweekly)
- Saudia: Jeddah to Thiruvananthapuram (wef Oct 5, 2xweekly), Riyadh to Thiruvananthapuram (wef Oct 1, 3xweekly)
- Thai AirAsia: Bangkok to Tiruchirappalli (wef Sep 29, 4xweekly), Bangkok to Jaipur (wef Sep 28, 4xweekly)
- Thai Lion Air: Bangkok to Mumbai (wef Sep 27, initially 2xweekly and 3xweekly wef Oct 29)
- Ukraine International Airlines: Kiev to Delhi (wef May 1 '18, 3xweekly)
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Top Ten International Airlines Flying to India (Passengers Carried / Oct-Dec 2016)
| Airline | Inbound | Outbound | Total |
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| Emirates | 711265 | 651831 | 1363096 |
| Etihad Airways | 347370 | 318933 | 666303 |
| Qatar Airways | 286397 | 248175 | 534572 |
| Air Arabia | 226418 | 222026 | 448444 |
| Oman Air | 212808 | 205260 | 418068 |
| SriLankan Airlines | 193478 | 200419 | 393897 |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | 187901 | 185085 | 372986 |
| Thai Airways | 165621 | 170985 | 336606 |
| Singapore Airlines | 146401 | 129218 | 275619 |
| Lufthansa | 147054 | 121038 | 268092 |
International Air Routes to India - Indian Airline Operators
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Air India flies to New York (JFK), Washington, D.C, Newark, Birmingham (UK), Copenhagen, Stockholm, Chicago, London (Heathrow), Paris (CDG), Madrid, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Frankfurt, Colombo, Dhaka, Kabul, Kathmandu, Yangon, Male, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo (Narita), Osaka, San Francisco, Sydney and Melbourne. Gulf destinations include Abu Dhabi, Damman, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Riyadh and Sharjah. Air India also operates a direct flight from Ahmedabad to Newark via London/Heathrow. |
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Air India Express, Air India's low-cost carrier subsidiary flies to Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Bahrain, Damman, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Muscat, Ras Al Khaimah, Salalah, Sharjah and Singapore from various Indian destinations. |
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Jet Airways flies from Abu Dhabi to Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai and Pune, Bahrain to Mumbai, Bangkok to Delhi, Mumbai, Amsterdam to Delhi, Mumbai, and Toronto, Colombo to Mumbai and Bengaluru, Damman to Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram, Dhaka to Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, Doha to Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram, Dubai to Delhi, Kochi, Mangalore, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram, Hong Kong to Delhi and Mumbai, Jeddah to Mumbai, Kathmandu to Delhi, Mumbai and Varanasi, Kuwait to Mumbai, London (Heathrow) to Delhi and Mumbai, Muscat to Kochi, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram, Paris (CDG) to Mumbai, Riyadh to Mumbai, Singapore to Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi. |
| Indigo | Indigo flies to five regional destinations including Muscat, Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Kathmandu, Bangkok and Singapore. |
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SpiceJet flies to regional destinations including Muscat, Dubai, Kabul, Kathmandu, Bangkok, Dhaka, Colombo and Malé. |
International Air Routes to India - Overseas Airline Operators
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United flies daily from Newark to both Delhi and Mumbai. |
| Air Canada | Air Canada operates a 4xweekly nonstop service between Toronto and Delhi using Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, a seasonal 3xweekly (5xweekly wef Dec 4) service from Vancouver to Delhi and a 3xweekly nonstop flight from Toronto to Mumbai. |
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Aeroflot flies 2xdaily from Moscow (Sheremetyevo) to Delhi. |
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Air France flies from Paris CDG to Delhi (daily), Mumbai (daily) and Bengaluru (6xweekly). |
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British Airways flies from London to Bengaluru (daily), Chennai (daily), Delhi (2xdaily), Mumbai (2xdaily incl. a daily Boeing 787-9 service) and Hyderabad (daily). |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels Airlines operates a 5xweekly (6xweekly wef winter 17/18) nonstop service between Brussels and Mumbai. |
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Finnair operates upto 6xweekly nonstop flights between Helsinki and Delhi. |
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KLM flies daily from Amsterdam to Delhi. |
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Lufthansa flies daily from Frankfurt to Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi (Airbus A380), Mumbai and 6xweekly to Pune (operated by PrivatAir with a stop at Bucharest). Lufthansa also offers daily flights from Munich to both Delhi and Mumbai (Airbus A350). Lufthansa also uses Airbus A350 equipment on the Munich-Delhi sector, the airline's inaugural route for this aircraft type. |
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Swiss International flies daily from Zurich to both Mumbai and Delhi. |
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Virgin Atlantic flies daily from London to Delhi. |
From CIS Countries | |
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Air Astana flies daily from Almaty to Delhi and 3xweekly from Astana to Delhi. |
| Air Manas | Air Manas flies 3xweekly from Bishkek to Delhi. |
| Tajik Air | Tajik Air flies 1xweekly from Dushanbe to Delhi. |
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Turkmenistan flies 5xweekly from Ashgabat to Amritsar and 3xweekly to Delhi. |
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Uzbekistan Airways serves Delhi 6xweekly and Amritsar 4xweekly from Tashkent. Four of these flights are combined services to both Amritsar and Delhi. |
From Central and West Asia | |
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Air Arabia flies 2xdaily from Sharjah to Delhi, Kochi and Mumbai, daily to Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kozhikode, Jaipur and Chennai, 2xdaily to Thiruvananthapuram, 4xweekly to Nagpur and 5xweekly to both Coimbatore and Goa. |
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Ariana Afghan Airlines operates 3xweekly flights from Kabul (1xweekly via Kandahar) to Delhi. |
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This low-cost Bahrain based airline flies 4xweekly from Bahrain to both Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram and 5xweekly to both Kochi and Kozhikode. |
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El Al flies 4xweekly from Tel Aviv to Mumbai. |
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Emirates flies 3xdaily from Dubai to Chennai, 4xdaily to Delhi, 3xdaily to Hyderabad, 2xdaily to Kochi, 5xdaily (incl. 1 daily A380) to Mumbai, 11xweekly to Thiruvananthapuram, 2xdaily to Kolkata, 3xdaily to Bengaluru and 10xweekly to Ahmedabad. Emirates currently operates upto 190 weekly flights (more than any other overseas airline) between Dubai and 9 destinations in India. |
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Etihad flies from Abu Dhabi to Bengaluru (3xdaily), Chennai (3xdaily), Mumbai (3xdaily, incl. a daily A380 service), Delhi (3xdaily), Thiruvananthapuram (2xdaily), Hyderabad (3xdaily), Kochi (3xdaily), Kozhikode (4xdaily), Kolkata (daily), Ahmedabad (daily) and Jaipur (daily). Etihad carried 666 000 passengers on its India services during the last quarter of 2016. The carrier operates a total of 194 weekly flights to 11 destinations in India. |
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flydubai, a low-cost carrier based in Dubai, offers flights from Dubai to Ahmedabad (2xweekly), Delhi (5xweekly), Chennai (3xweekly), Hyderabad (5xweekly), Lucknow (3xweekly), Thiruvananthapuram (3xweekly), Kochi (4xweekly) and Mumbai (5xweekly). |
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Gulf Air flies from Bahrain to Chennai (10xweekly), Delhi (2xdaily), Hyderabad (9xweekly), Kochi (daily), Mumbai (2xdaily) and Thiruvananthapuram (daily). |
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Iran Air flies 2xweekly from Tehran to Mumbai. |
| Iraqi Airways | Iraqi Airways flies 2xweekly from Baghdad (1xweekly via Basra) to Delhi and 1/2xweekly from Najaf and Baghdad to Mumbai. |
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Jazeera Airways, a low cost carrier based in Kuwait, flies from Kuwait to Mumbai (2xdaily), Delhi (3xweekly) and Kochi (3xweekly). |
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Kam Air, a private Afghan airline, operates a daily service from Kabul to Delhi. |
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Kuwait Airways flies from Kuwait to Bengaluru (5xweekly), Mumbai (2xdaily), Kochi (10xweekly), Chennai (5xweekly), Thiruvananthapuram (6xweekly), Delhi (2xdaily) and Ahmedabad (5xweekly). |
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Mahan Air flies 3xweekly from Tehran to Delhi. |
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Oman Air flies from Muscat to Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi (3xdaily), Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kozhikode (2xdaily), Lucknow (14xweekly), Mumbai (3xdaily) and Thiruvananthapuram. Oman Air also flies daily from Salalah to Kozhikode. |
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Qatar Airways flies daily from Doha to Ahmedabad, Delhi (2xdaily), Chennai (daily), Mumbai (daily), Kolkata (daily), Nagpur (daily), Thiruvananthapuram (daily), Hyderabad (daily), Kochi (11xweekly), daily to Kozhikode, Amritsar (daily), Goa (daily) and daily to Bengaluru. |
| Safi Airways | Safi Airways flies 4xweekly from Kabul to Delhi. |
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Saudi Arabian Airlines flies from Riyadh to Delhi (6xweekly), Bengaluru (2xweekly), Mumbai (daily), Chennai (3xweekly), Kochi (6xweekly), Hyderabad (3xweekly) and Lucknow (3xweekly) - from Jeddah to Delhi (daily), Mumbai (10xweekly), Chennai (3xweekly), Kochi (9xweekly), Hyderabad (3xweekly), Bengaluru (1xweekly) and Lucknow (4xweekly) - from Damman to Chennai (1xweekly), Kochi (1xweekly), Bengaluru (1xweekly) |
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Turkish Airlines flies daily from Istanbul to both Delhi and Mumbai. |
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| Air Austral | Air Austral connects Chennai 2xweekly with Saint Denis (Réunion) and Bangkok. |
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Air Mauritius flies from Mauritius to Bengaluru/Chennai (2xweekly), Delhi (2xweekly) and Mumbai (4/5 weekly). |
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Air Seychelles serves Mumbai 5xweekly from Mahe. |
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EgyptAir flies 4xweekly from from Cairo to Mumbai. |
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Ethiopian Airlines flies 2xdaily from Addis Ababa to Mumbai and 5xweekly to Delhi. |
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Kenya Airways flies 12xweekly from Nairobi to Mumbai. |
| RwandAir | RwandAir operates a 4xweekly nonstop air service from Kigali to Mumbai served by Boeing 737-800 aircraft. |
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| Bhutan Airlines | Bhutan Airlines flies daily from Paro and Bangkok to Kolkata and 3xweekly from Paro to Delhi via Kathmandu. |
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Biman Bangladesh Airlines flies 12xweekly from Dhaka to Kolkata and 2xweekly from Chittagong to Kolkata. |
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Druk Air (Royal Bhutan Airlines), Bhutan's national airline, flies from Paro to Guwahati, Delhi, Kolkata, Gaya, Bagdogra and Mumbai. |
| Maldivian | Maldivian flies 6xweekly from Malé International Airport to Thiruvananthapuram and 3xweekly to Chennai (and onwards to Dhaka) and 1xweekly from Hanimadhoo to Thiruvananthapuram. |
| Mega Maldives Airlines | Mega Maldives Airlines flies 3xweekly from Malé International Airport to Delhi. |
| Myanmar Airways International | MAI flies 3xweekly (seasonal) from Yangon to Gaya and 2xweekly to Kolkata. |
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Nepal Airlines flies 2xdaily from Kathmandu to Delhi and 3xweekly to both Mumbai and Bengaluru. |
| Novoair | Novoair operates a 4xweekly service from Kolkata to Dhaka and 3xweekly service to Chittagong. |
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Regent Airways flies daily from both Dhaka and Chittagong to Kolkata. |
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SriLankan Airlines flies 11xweekly from Colombo to Bengaluru, Gaya (seasonal), Chennai (20xweekly), Delhi (11xweekly), Kochi (2xdaily), Kolkata (3xweekly), Madurai (1xweekly), Mumbai (daily), Tiruchirappalli (2xdaily), Thiruvananthapuram (daily) and Varanasi (2xweekly). New routes include Colombo to Hyderabad (4xweekly), Visakhapatnam (4xweekly) and Coimbatore (4xweekly). |
| US-Bangla Airlines | US-Bangla Airlines flies daily from both Dhaka (daily) and Chittagong (2xweekly) to Kolkata. |
From the Far East, Southeast Asia and Australasia | |
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Air Asia flies Kuala Lumpur to the following Indian destinations: Bengaluru (4xweekly), Bhubaneswar (4xweekly), Chennai (2xdaily), Hyderabad (daily), Kochi (2xdaily), Kolkata (daily), Tiruchirappalli (4xdaily) and Visakhapatnam (3xweekly). Thai Air Asia flies 5xweekly from Bangkok (Don Mueang) to Chennai, daily to Kochi, 5xweekly to Bengaluru, daily to Kolkata and 4xweekly to Tiruchirappalli (wef Sep 29) and 4xweekly to Jaipur (wef Sep 29). Air Asia X flies 4xweekly from Kuala Lumpur to Delhi. |
| Air Asia X Indonesia | Air Asia X Indonesia, affiliated with AirAsia is a low-cost long-haul carrier, provides a direct daily Airbus A330 air service from Denpasar Bali to Mumbai via Kuala Lumpur. |
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Air China flies 5xweekly from Beijing to Delhi and 4xweekly to Mumbai. |
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All Nippon Airways (ANA) operates daily services from Tokyo Narita airport to both Delhi and Mumbai. |
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Asiana Airlines flies daily from Seoul's Incheon International airport to Delhi. |
| Bangkok Airways | Bangkok Airways flies daily from Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi) to Mumbai. |
| Batik Air | Batik Air operates a daily air service from Denpasar Bali via Kuala Lumpur to Chennai. Batik Air's second route to India connects Medan daily with Chennai via Kuala Lumpur. |
| Cathay Pacific flies 2xdaily from Hong Kong to Delhi, 10xweekly to Mumbai, daily to Chennai and 4xweekly from Hong Kong to Hyderabad. |
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China Airlines flies 2xweekly from Taipei to Delhi. |
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China Eastern flies daily from Shanghai/Beijing to Delhi and daily from Hangzhou via Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan province to Kolkata. |
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China Southern, China's largest airline, flies twice daily from Guangzhou (Canton) to Delhi. |
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Cathay Dragon flies daily from Hong Kong to Bengaluru and 6xweekly to Kolkata. |
| Garuda Indonesia | Garuda Indonesia has re-introduced a service to India after a lapse of 30 years. The airline connects Jakarta with Mumbai via Bangkok 3xweekly. |
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Japan Airlines operates a daily Boeing 787 Dreamliner service from Tokyo Narita to Delhi. |
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Korean Air flies thrice weekly from Seoul/Incheon airport to Mumbai and 5xweekly to Delhi. |
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Malaysia Airlines flies from Kuala Lumpur to Bengaluru (12xweekly), Chennai (2xdaily), Delhi (10xweekly), Hyderabad (daily) and Mumbai (2xdaily; 17xweekly wef Nov 1). |
| Malindo Air | Malindo Air flies from Kuala Lumpur to Amritsar (5xweekly), Delhi (11xweekly), Kochi (7xweekly), Mumbai (8xweekly), Thiruvananthapuram (4xweekly) and Tiruchirappalli (21xweekly). |
| Scoot | Scoot flies 3xweekly to Amritsar service to Chennai, daily to Bengaluru, 6xweekly to Hyderabad, 4xweekly to Jaipur, 4xweekly to Kochi, 3xweekly to Lucknow and 2xdaily to Tiruchirappalli. |
| Shandong Airlines | Shandong Airlines operates two bi-weekly services from Qingdao and Jinan to Delhi, both flights via Kunming. |
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Silk Air flies from Singapore to Chennai (4xweekly), Bengaluru (5xweekly), Kolkata (3xweekly), Thiruvananthapuram (5xweekly), Kochi (10xweekly), Hyderabad (10xweekly), 5xweekly to Coimbatore and 3xweekly to Visakhapatnam. |
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Singapore Airlines flies 4xweekly from Singapore to Ahmedabad, daily to Bengaluru, Chennai, 2xdaily (incl. 1 daily A380) to Delhi, 4xweekly to Kolkata and 2xdaily (incl. 1 daily A380 and 1 daily A350) to Mumbai. |
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Thai Airways flies from Bangkok to Bengaluru (daily), Kolkata (daily), Chennai (daily), Delhi (19xweekly), Mumbai (daily) and Hyderabad (5xweekly). |
| Thai Lion Air | Thai Lion Air will debut in India with a 2xweekly service from Bangkok (Don Mueang) to Mumbai wef Sep 27 '17. A third weekly flight will be added from Oct 29 '17. |
| Thai Smile Air | Thai Smile Air flies from Bangkok to 3xweekly to Gaya (via Varanasi), 3xweekly to Jaipur, 3xweekly to Lucknow and 3xweekly to Varanasi. |
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