SpiceJet to expand international network

Domestic low cost carrier SpiceJet has announced that it will launch flights from Delhi to Guangzhou, China and Delhi to Riyadh from early next year.

In a statement issued here, the airline said Guangzhou is a centre for education, culture and communication in Southern China, as well as one of the three biggest exhibition centres of China. It is an important centre for foreign commerce and attracts huge travel from India.

SpiceJet will operate direct, daily flights on the Delhi-Riyadh and four weekly flights on the Delhi-Guangzhou route.

The Delhi-Riyadh route will be operational by January 4, 2013 while the first flight from Delhi to Guangzhou will take off on February 8.

“We at SpiceJet are very excited about these two great new routes to Riyadh and Guangzhou which will give passengers more choice,” SpiceJet CEO, Neil Mills said.

SpiceJet is the only Indian carrier to connect Guangzhou with India. Booking of tickets for both the routes are open now. With the addition of these two routes, SpiceJet will fly to seven international destinations from India.

The airline will deploy 189-seater Boeing 737 NG aircraft on the two new routes.

Earlier, the airline had announced its plans to launch three new international routes Kochi-Male, Kochi-Dubai and Ahmedabad-Dubai.

While Kochi-Male flight started on November 29, Kochi-Dubai will start from December 10. Ahmedabad-Dubai will start from December 19.

At present, SpiceJet operates flights to Kathmandu (Nepal), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Kabul (Afghanistan), Dubai (UAE) and Male (Maldives). SpiceJet offers 11 routes on the existing international destinations from India.

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