Thai Lion adds two new flights to India

Thai Lion adds two new flights to India

November 25th, 2024. The budget-friendly airline will commence flights from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to both Chennai and Kolkata in the middle of December.

The service to Chennai will be the first to hit the runway with four flights a week starting on December 15th. Flight number SL240 will take off from Don Mueang on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 22:55 and arrive in Chennai at 01:00 the following morning.

The return leg, flight number SL241, departs from Chennai on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 02:00 and lands back in Bangkok at 07:10. The flight time is a little less than four hours and will be served by a Boeing 737-800.

Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital and largest city in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, on the Bay of Bengal.

The City of Joy

Flights to Kolkata, which is nicknamed The City of Joy after Dominique Lapierre’s novel of that name, will take off a day later on December 16th. The service will operate on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Flight number SL242 will take off from Bangkok at 00:30 and land at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 01:35.

The return leg, flight number SL243, will take off from Kolkata at 02:35 and touch down again in Bangkok at 06:35. The flight deploys a Boeing 737-800 and the flight time is around three hours.

Kolkata, or Calcutta as it used to be known, was founded by the British East India Company. It was the country’s capital from 1773 until 1911.

These new flights will bring the Thai Lion’s total number of destinations in India to seven. The airline already serves Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Kochi, and Mumbai.

Picture: Thai Lion Air Boeing 737 800 at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport via Wikimedia Commons

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