West Air links Chongqing and Bangkok
IndiGo to launch new routes to Bangkok and Hanoi
West Air links Chongqing and Bangkok
IndiGo to launch new routes to Bangkok and Hanoi
September 21st, 2026. China West Air will relaunch its service to Bangkok after a three-year break. The flight will operate daily commencing October 12th.
Flight number PN6429 will depart from Jiangbei International Airport, Chongqing, at 18:00 (17:55 on Thursdays) and will arrive at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport at 20:15. The return leg, flight number PN6430, will leave Bangkok at 21:15 and arrive back in Chongqing at 01:30 the next morning.
An Airbus A320 aircraft will serve the route, and the journey time will be three hours and fifteen minutes in each direction.
Guwahati to Bangkok
India’s favourite low-cost carrier, IndiGo, has also lined up a new service linking Guwahati, in the country’s northeastern state of Assam, with Bangkok. The inaugural flight will be on October 27th, but the service will settle into a routine service from October 31st with two flights a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Flight number 6E1085 will take off from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati, at 18:15 and will land at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi at 22:45. In the other direction, flight number 6E1086 will depart from Bangkok at 08:50 and touch down in Guwahati at 10:25.
The flight time in each direction will be about three hours, and the route will be served by an Airbus A320 aircraft.
Mumbai to Hanoi
IndiGo is also launching a new service connecting Mumbai with the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi. This route takes off on October 25th and will operate daily.
Flight number 6E1637 will depart from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai, at 04:15 and will arrive at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport at 10:00. The return journey, flight number 6E1638, will leave Hanoi at 19:05 and arrive back in Mumbai at 23:05.
The route will be served by Airbus A321 Neo aircraft. The outbound journey time will be four hours and fifteen minutes, and the return will be five and a half hours.
Picture: Yaoworat Road, Bangkok, ©David Sutton/themangoroad.com
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