New service links Bengaluru and Kathmandu
New service links Bengaluru and Kathmandu
Akasa Air launches route between Kochi and Jeddah
April 17th, 2025. Air India Express, a low-cost subsidiary of flag carrier Air India, will be introducing a direct daily service between Bengaluru, and Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Kathmandu sits in the Kathmandu Valley at an altitude of 1,324 metres (4,344 feet) in the Himalayan foothills, The city was founded sometime in the second century CE and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.
The new service will take off on June 1st with flight number IX884 departing from Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport at 05:05 and arriving at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu at 08:05. The return trip, flight number IX883 will leave Kathmandu at 09:05 and land back in Bengaluru at 12:25.
The airline will use a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The duration of the northbound flight will be two hours and forty-five minutes the return flight will be fifty minutes shorter.
Kochi to Jeddah
India’s newest low-cost carrier, Akasa Air, is launching a twice-weekly direct service between Kochi and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia starting on May 9th. The flight will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays deploying Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, with two different time slots.
On Tuesdays flight number QP550 will depart from Cochin International Airport at 19:05 and will touch down at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport at 22:55. The return leg, flight number QP551, takes off from Jeddah at 23:55 and arrives back in Kochi at 08:40 the next morning.
The Friday service keeps the same flight numbers but will depart from Kochi at 17:00 and arrive in Jeddah at 21:00. It leaves Jeddah at 22:00 and touches down again in Kochi at 06:40 the next day.
Picture: Image of the goddess Kali in Kathmandu’s Durber Square ©David Sutton/http://themangoroad.com
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