New domestic routes for Thailand and India

New domestic routes for Thailand and India
Thai AirAsia to serve Buri Ram, Surat Thani and Narathiwat.
Indigo links Lucknow with Srinagar

April 1st, 2025. From July 1st Thai AirAsia will add three new destinations to its domestic network from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. The flights will serve Buri Ram, in the lower northeast, Surat Thani, where ferries depart for Ko Samui and Narathiwat in Thailand’s southernmost province adjacent to the Malaysian border.

“By providing service from both Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports, the airline has created the most extensive domestic network in Thailand with 37 routes,” said Thai AirAsia’s CEO Santisuk Klongchaiya.

First on the runway will be FD4212 which will depart for Surat Thani daily at 07:30 and reach its destination eighty-five minutes later at 08:55. The return trip, flight number FD4213, takes off at 09:30 and lands back in Bangkok at 10:45.

The service to Narathiwat also operates every day. Flight number FD4252, will leave Bangkok at 11:20 and arrives at Narathiwat at 12:55. The return journey, flight number FD4253, will depart again at 13:25 and arrive back in Bangkok ninety minutes later, at 14:55.

Buri Ram will be served three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Flight number FD4511 will depart from Bangkok at 15:30 and land in Buri Ram at 16:35. It departs again, as flight number FD4512, at 17:05 and will arrive back in Bangkok at 18:10. The flight time in each direction is sixty-five minutes.

All the above flights will deploy Airbus A320 aircraft.

A service between Lucknow and Srinagar

Indigo Airlines had just launched a new daily non-stop service linking Lucknow and Srinagar.

Flight number 6E 6945 takes off from Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport in Lucknow at 05:20 and land at Srinagar Airport at 07:15. The return leg, flight number 6E 6524, leaves Srinagar at 17:50 and touches down again in Lucknow at 19:40.

The flight is a little under two hours in each direction and served by Airbus A321neo aircraft.

“We are pleased to introduce a direct service between Lucknow and Srinagar, two cities of immense historical and cultural significance,” said the airline’s Head of Global Sales, Vinay Malhotra. “With the introduction of this fight, IndiGo now offers over 230 flights from Lucknow, connecting to 17 domestic destinations and three international destinations. With these new flights IndiGo will now connect Srinagar to 10 destinations in India with over 150 weekly departures.”

Picture: Houseboats on Dal Lake by Madhumita Das via Wikimedia Commons

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