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Mumbai based low fare carrier GoAir, has added new routes and additional frequencies in its latest round of network expansion which takes effect in the Summer 2016 schedule which takes effect on March 27, 2016.
The new flights reflect GoAir’s strategy of connecting Tier 1 metro cities with Tier II and sometimes even Tier III cities. These include two triangular flights Mumbai Leh Srinagar and Bengaluru Patna Ranchi, which connect Mumbai directly with Leh for the first time.
Similarly, for the first time, Bengaluru is connected directly to Port Blair and passengers can bypass the tedious transit through Chennai or Kolkata. This flight though, appears to cost GoAir operationally; the aircraft has to sit at Veer Savarkar airport, Port Blair for over 17 hours due to prevailing weather conditions before its departs late morning the next day. GoAir has received awards from Airbus for maintaining some of the highest A320 aircraft utilisation rates in the world. It is now clarified that the aircraft departs after 30 minute turn-around to Kolkata. We apologise for the mistake. The confusion was caused by the publicly available schedules of GoAir, as at the time of original publication.
New GoAir routes
All flights operate daily.
| New Routes | ||||
| Origin | Destination | Flt No. | Dep | Arr |
| Bengaluru | Port Blair | G8 291 | 14:40 | 17:15 |
| Port Blair | Bengaluru | G8 292 | 11:25 | 14:05 |
| Mumbai | Leh | G8 386 | 04:00 | 06:15 |
| Leh | Mumbai (Via Srinagar) | G8 386 | 06:45 | 10:45 |
| Bengaluru | Patna | G8 271 | 09:40 | 12:10 |
| Patna | Bengaluru (Via Ranchi) | G8 271 | 12:40 | 16:30 |
| Bengaluru | Ranchi (Via Patna) | G8 271 | 09:40 | 17:25 |
| Ranchi | Bengaluru | G8 271 | 14:00 | 16:30 |
The airline has also added additional frequencies on its existing routes.
Additional GoAir frequencies
All flights operate daily.
| Additional frequencies | ||||
| Origin | Destination | Flt No. | Dep | Arr |
| Delhi | Ranchi | G8 145 | 09:20 | 11:05 |
| Ranchi | Delhi | G8 146 | 11:35 | 13:20 |
| Delhi | Lucknow | G8 181 | 22:15 | 23:15 |
| Lucknow | Delhi | G8 182 | 23:45 | 00:45 |
| Delhi | Patna | G8 139 | 13:35 | 15:10 |
| Patna | Delhi | G8 140 | 15:40 | 17:25 |
| Mumbai | Ahmedabad | G8 363 | 21:50 | 23:05 |
| Ahmedabad | Mumbai | G8 364 | 23:35 | 00:50 |
| Mumbai | Srinagar (Via Leh) | G8 386 | 04:00 | 07:30 |
| Srinagar | Mumbai | G8 386 | 08:00 | 10:45 |
| Patna | Ranchi | G8 271 | 12:40 | 13:30 |
| Leh | Srinagar | G8 386 | 06:45 | 07:30 |
What about Goa to Jaipur.
Why can’t the mount an early morning departure from Bangalore to Port Blair than having a long lay over and also making the crew stay over? This is so obvious and there must be some strong reason for 17 hours lay over.
Why can’t the mount an early morning departure from Bangalore to Port Blair than having a long lay over and also making the crew stay over? This is so obvious and there must be some strong reason for 17 hours lay over.
By the looks of it, The BLR – IXZ flies onwards to CCU at 17:45 hours. The morning flight on CCU – IXZ flies onwards to BLR on its next leg. 17 hours on ground for any airline is a sheer waste of aircraft utilization.
It may be possible. But I am unable to find details of the IXZ-CCU flight of 17:45.
Operating as G8-102 from 27th March sir