Frequency increases by IndiGo:
BLR-CJB increases to 3x daily wef 15FEB19
BLR-BBI increases to 6x daily wef 1MAR19

Indigo announces Kannur-Goa-Kannur

IndiGo opened sales for KANNUR-GOA-KANNUR with effect from 25th Jan 2019.

CNN-GOI 6E 7984 2205 hrs - 2335 hrs

GOI-CNN 6E 7985 2355 hrs - 0115 hrs

Aircraft- ATR

Capacity - 74 Seats

For more information and advance group booking please logon to http://www.goindigo.in

unrave wrote:

Frequency increases by IndiGo:
BLR-CJB increases to 3x daily wef 15FEB19
BLR-BBI increases to 6x daily wef 1MAR19

The full schedule of new flights:

wef 15FEB19
Bangalore - Coimbatore, 3rd frequency
Bangalore - Srinagar, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Surat, 2nd frequency

wef 01MAR19
Bangalore - Imphal, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Bhopal, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Bhubaneshwar, 5th frequency

unrave wrote:

unrave wrote:

Frequency increases by IndiGo:
BLR-CJB increases to 3x daily wef 15FEB19
BLR-BBI increases to 6x daily wef 1MAR19

The full schedule of new flights:

wef 15FEB19
Bangalore - Coimbatore, 3rd frequency
Bangalore - Srinagar, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Surat, 2nd frequency

wef 01MAR19
Bangalore - Imphal, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Bhopal, 1st frequency
Bangalore - Bhubaneshwar, 5th frequency

The rate at which 6E is taking control of BLR, if it launches Leh, it will first launch BLR-IXL and then DEL-IXL. Then again I don't know if such a high airport can support a plane all the way from BLR.

In a very sad location, 6E NEO suffered an engine failure at Port Blair http://avherald.com/h?article=4c21d528&opt=0

I am honestly very interested in how they make their logistics work to fix this one... The aircraft is grounded since 5 days

Also, 6E 477 operates on GOI-BLR-ATQ-SXR.

I don't know how your statement relates to the IndiGo IXZ incident. But still:

anshabhi wrote:

Also, 6E 477 operates on GOI-BLR-ATQ-SXR.

Why such a roundabout route? It could have gone via BOM. And can't the plane fly BLR-SXR directly or is SXR too high for it?

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=goi-blr-atq- ... 25+%28N%22

VTCIE wrote:

I don't know how your statement relates to the IndiGo IXZ incident. But still:

It doesn't. He is pointing out that IndiGo already flies a one stop same aircraft flight from BLR to SXR (to the news about IndiGo launching non stop BLR-SXR)

unrave wrote:

VTCIE wrote:

I don't know how your statement relates to the IndiGo IXZ incident. But still:

It doesn't. He is pointing out that IndiGo already flies a one stop same aircraft flight from BLR to SXR (to the news about IndiGo launching non stop BLR-SXR)

VTCIE wrote:

The rate at which 6E is taking control of BLR, if it launches Leh, it will first launch BLR-IXL and then DEL-IXL. Then again I don't know if such a high airport can support a plane all the way from BLR.

6E realises one thing the other airlines don't ; the importance of slots. Other airlines are playing cool and expanding out of not so saturated airports. 6E is however grabbing slots at an airport likely to be exhausted of those in the near future. And this is the third important airport after the first two already saturated ones. So yes, BLR is very important and so are their slots.
Airlines like G8 always thought they were too cool to expand at their own slow pace like in the tortoise and hare fashion. But they lost out on their two main hubs, and can't figure out where to fly now.
When KF/DN were around, 6E wasn't that big out of BOM. But when KF went bust, 6E seized up most of the slots quickly at BOM and is now the second biggest airline at the the city airport which is chock a block now.
And the NRI owner of this largest airline in the country would know by his experience in the US market how precious airport slots can be at major airports. It can literally make or break an airline.

Just out of curiosity, which is longest non stop domestic route? DEL-IXZ?
BLR-SXR is 1443nm acc to gcmap.

sand26391 wrote:

Just out of curiosity, which is longest non stop domestic route? DEL-IXZ?
BLR-SXR is 1443nm acc to gcmap.

Yes, DEL-IXZ is the longest followed by COK-GAU

avier wrote:

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And the NRI owner of this largest airline in the country would know by his experience in the US market how precious airport slots can be at major airports. It can literally make or break an airline.

Yes the NRI owner happens to have experience in turning around airlines plagued by outdated rules, dealing with upstart LCC’s and unlike Nusli Wadia, did not inherit his wealth or NG, didn’t need a friendly mantra.

That said, the fact is that the Indian market is growing at a faster rate than the supporting infrastructure.

Right now, Rakesh Ganfwal’s competitor is Train 18 not any airline. SG may or could but they were a bit slow out of the gate.

Why did indigo go with 222 seat config over the 240 seat limit? Is this a long haul config? Or their standard one for the a321?

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

Why did indigo go with 222 seat config over the 240 seat limit? Is this a long haul config? Or their standard one for the a321?

240 seats would restrict range

unrave wrote:

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

Why did indigo go with 222 seat config over the 240 seat limit? Is this a long haul config? Or their standard one for the a321?

240 seats would restrict range

That would make sense for long haul but I am sure the 240 config can easily do 1500nm which is the longest domestic route.

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

That would make sense for long haul but I am sure the 240 config can easily do 1500nm which is the longest domestic route.

The plan is to employ A321neos on both medium haul international routes and high capacity domestic routes. Having different seat configurations for both would complicate scheduling.

unrave wrote:

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

That would make sense for long haul but I am sure the 240 config can easily do 1500nm which is the longest domestic route.

The plan is to employ A321neos on both medium haul international routes and high capacity domestic routes. Having different seat configurations for both would complicate scheduling.

Makes sense. Interesting to see that the simplicity of operations outweighs almost a 10% capacity increase.

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

unrave wrote:

ssreekanth2000 wrote:

That would make sense for long haul but I am sure the 240 config can easily do 1500nm which is the longest domestic route.

The plan is to employ A321neos on both medium haul international routes and high capacity domestic routes. Having different seat configurations for both would complicate scheduling.

Makes sense. Interesting to see that the simplicity of operations outweighs almost a 10% capacity increase.

Maybe once they have enough A321 online, they can maintain both configurations without impacting scheduling

Market share of Indian metal is very low; much better opportunity for IndiGo to grow.

Domestic is also higher risk/saturation due to infrastructure constraints.

Better to focus international

Go Air has stationed four A320s at CNN in the hopes of building a hub there. So many planes but nowhere to fly them...

Good for them if they can simulate demand; Kannur however most likely means heavy dose ME.

unrave wrote:

Go Air has stationed four A320s at CNN in the hopes of building a hub there. So many planes but nowhere to fly them...

Apart from COK, domestic has never been so strong at Kerala. CNN traffic would be similar like the way it's at CCJ. Both airports are also very close with the same catchment area.
So G8's most likely preparing for Int'l. But bilaterals for some places are again an issue.

SpiceJet new flights wef 20JAN18
Dehradun - Jaipur
Dehradun - Amritsar
Dehradun - Jammu
All three routes are exclusive. Operated on Q400

ATF prices to go down 14.5% effective this midnight. Along with the sharp recovery in rupee, this fall in ATF prices means that the worst is over for the Indian aviation industry.

(Two minutes' silence to who thought SpiceJet was on the road to insolvency)

unrave wrote:

ATF prices to go down 14.5% effective this midnight. Along with the sharp recovery in rupee, this fall in ATF prices means that the worst is over for the Indian aviation industry.

(Two minutes' silence to who thought SpiceJet was on the road to insolvency)

Great news.. I hope some of the benefits are passed over to common public too

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