Let's Go Thiruvananthapuram! Asian Airlines Loving India Right Now

Where: India

October 16, 2009 at 4:43 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

While we're busy being happy for the winner of the CN Traveler Awards, plenty of other airlines around the world have news of their own, and mainly in the new routes area. For those of you chilling around Asia like our own Claire Duffett, here's the need-to-know new routes coming your way:

· Air Asia begins low-cost direct flights from their base in Kuala Lumpur to Calcutta, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in India in November. One-way flights (including tax) begin as low as $32, and these new routes compliment Air Asia's current India destination of Trichy, effectively quadrupling their Indian routes.

· Thai Airways is starting up a direct route between Phuket and Hong Kong on October 25, meaning that travelers can more easily hop between the holiday destination in Thailand to the shopping and business metropolis that is HK. It's not a very long flight at all—only a few hours—but we always welcome more options to get from point A to point B.

· Qatar Airways is just as entranced with India as Air Asia, since they've just begun service between Doha and the Indian holy city of Amritsar in time for the Diwali holidays. The coming months bring further route additions, like direct between Doha and the Indian resort of Goa, and between Doha and Melbourne, Australia. Go away to Goa, we always say! Okay, that was cheesy.

Related Stories:
· AirAsia to launch Flights between KL - Kolkata, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram [AsiaTravelTips]
· Thai Airways to launch Phuket-Hong Kong route [AsiaTravelTips]
· Qatar Airways launches flights to Amritsar [AsiaTravelTips]
· New Routes coverage [Jaunted]

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