New flights: Kuala Lumpur to Andaman and Nicobar

New flights: Kuala Lumpur to Andaman and Nicobar

New flights: Kuala Lumpur to Andaman and Nicobar

August 14, 2024. AirAsia will be introducing flights between Kuala Lumpur and Port Blair on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The inaugural flight will take off on November 16 and will be followed by flights every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Flight AK65 will depart from Kuala Lumpur at 10.40 for the two-hour and ten-minute flight, arriving at Port Blair’s Veer Savarkar International Airport at 10.20 local time. The return flight, AK64, departs Port Blair at 10.55 arriving back in Kuala Lumpur at 16.15.

Port Blair is the capital city of Andaman and Nicobar, a string of islands stretching more than 800 kilometres from north to south and separating the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea. Although the islands are politically part of India, the 572 islands that make up the chain are geographically closer to the west coast of southern Myanmar and the northern tip of Sumatra.

The islands have long been popular with beach lovers and diving enthusiasts for the crystal clear water, pristine corals and abundant marine life. They were used as a naval base during the reign of the Chola Empire in the ninth century CE.

European colonisation began with the Danish in 1756 but the islands were repeatedly abandoned due to outbreaks of Malaria. In 1868 they sold them to the British who made them a part of British India.

Picture: Tropical beach and Mangroves on Havelock Island, © Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons

Resorts
Tilar Siro Andamans
Sea Shell Havelock

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