MUMBAI, OCT 22: New links between Mumbai and Raipur, Pune and Calcutta, Ahmedabad and Pune and Raipur and Bhubaneshwar, are the highlights of the winter schedule of Indian Airlines and its subsidiary, Alliance Air, coming into effect from next Monday, October 26, 1998.The new flight CD 169 on the Mumbai-Raipur-Bhubaneshwar-Mumbai sector operating on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, will leave Mumbai at 4.55 pm and reach Raipur at 6.25 pm. It will leave Raipur at 6.55 pm and reach Bhubaneshwar at 7.55 pm, and take off from Bhubaneshwar at 8.25 pm to arrive Mumbai at 10.30 pm, an official release informed.
The other new service CD 267/CD 268 on Calcutta-Ahmedabad-Pune-Chennai and return sector, operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays will leave Calcutta at 2.30 pm, reach Ahmedabad at 5 pm, leave Ahmedabad at 5.30 pm, reach Pune at 6.30 pm, leave Pune at 7 pm and reach Chennai at 8.35 pm. In the return direction, CD 268 will leave Chennai at 2 pm, reach Pune at 3.35 pm, leave Pune at 4.05 pm, reachAhmedabad at 5.05 pm, leave Ahmedabad at 5.35 pm and reach Calcutta at 7.50 pm.
Alliance Air will also increase the frequency of flights on Chennai-Port Blair to four per week, Hyderabad-Vizag to seven per week and Chennai-Vizag to four per week, with effect from October 26. Capacity has been increased on busy routes like Mumbai-Calcutta, Calcutta-Chennai, Calcutta-Guwahati and Calcutta-Kathmandu wherein Airbus A300 with 247 seats capacity will fly.
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