Malindo Air inaugurates flight operations from Kolkata

Kolkata: Betting big on the growing Indian tourist arrivals in Malaysia, Malindo Air on Tuesday inaugurated its flight operations from the city to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the southeast Asian country.

On the Kolkata-Kuala Lumpur route, the airline will have flights five times a week offering a seating capacity of 810. It offers 12 business class and 150 economy class seats. This adds to 74 weekly flights by the airline from nine Indian cities including Trivandrum, Trichy, Kochin, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Amritsar, Delhi and Kolkata.

“India is one of the important markets for us and we have been getting a good response. Kolkata is a potential market in terms of outbound travellers and we are looking for a good response from here,” the airline CEO Chandran Rama Muthy said. (IANS)