{"id":8234,"date":"2017-12-21T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2017-12-21T06:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:47:40","slug":"indigo-commences-atr-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/21\/indigo-commences-atr-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo commences ATR operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its effort to build a robust air transportation network in India, IndiGo, country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest and fastest growing carrier, today announced the commencement of its ATR operations in Hyderabad. The inaugural ATR flight will operate on Hyderabad-Mangalore sector starting December 21, 2017. With the introduction of brand new ATR 72-600 aircraft to its fleet, IndiGohas taken another step towards providing an on-time, affordable and a hassle-free travel experience to passengers in Tier-II and Tier-III towns and cities.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">While talking to media today in Hyderabad, <b>Mr.<\/b> <b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aditya Ghosh, President and Whole Time Director, IndiGo <\/span><\/b>said, <i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Following the vision of our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji to promote regional connectivity through UDAN, IndiGo is proud to announce the addition of brand new ATR 72-600 aircraft to its 149 aircraft strong fleet and offer connectivity to tier 2 and tier 3 cities of India, starting<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_417229943\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tomorrow<\/span><\/span>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IndiGo-commmences-ATR-operations_Captain-and-6E-crew-readying-to-take-off-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"IndiGo commmences ATR operations_Captain and 6E crew readying to take off\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IndiGo-commmences-ATR-operations_Captain-and-6E-crew-readying-to-take-off-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IndiGo-commmences-ATR-operations_Captain-and-6E-crew-readying-to-take-off-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IndiGo-commmences-ATR-operations_Captain-and-6E-crew-readying-to-take-off.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is indeed <\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">a moment of great pride, not only for team IndiGo, but for every citizen of this country who is waiting for an affordable and a hassle free flying experience on these unserved and underserved routes. With more ATRs joining our fleet in the months to come, <\/span><\/i><i>we are much closer to realising the dream of the common man.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IndiGo network will expand not only to provide connectivity between these smaller cities, but our strong network of domestic and international markets will also open up immense connectivity to and fro for these smaller markets.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153By December 2019, IndiGo with its fleet of brand new 21 ATRs, would have connected about 15 tier-II and tier-III new cities on its network, thereby giving a big boost to regional connectivity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/i>he added.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Commercial Officer, IndiGo,<\/b> while elaborating on IndiGo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expansion plan said, <i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153On 7<sup>th<\/sup> January and 9<sup>th<\/sup> January 2018 IndiGo is commencing its second and third ATR operations, adding Tirupati and Rajahmundry on IndiGo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 6E network respectively.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also announced four new domestic flights from Hyderabad; which include an additional <b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Lucknow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hyderabad<\/b> flight, a new <b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ranchi \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hyderabad<\/b> flight, an additional<b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jaipur<\/b> and a new <b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jammu<\/b> via Jaipur flight on 21<sup>st<\/sup> December. And two international flights which include <b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Doha &#8211; Hyderabad<\/b> on 21<sup>st<\/sup> December and <b>Hyderabad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sharjah &#8211; Hyderabad<\/b> commencing on 29<sup>th<\/sup> December 2017. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<i>These additional flights have helped IndiGo in achieving <u>1000 flights a day mark in December 2017<\/u>, making it the only Indian airline to operate as many flights in a day,<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added further.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5;\">IndiGo has placed a term sheet for 50 ATR aircraft. The airline is expecting to add 7 ATR flights by March 2018 and 21 ATR planes to its fleet by December 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_2069302282867878932MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">IndiGo in October 2017 had announced strengthening its network in the regional markets with over 90 flights to and fro Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mangalore, Madurai, Vijayawada and Nagpur.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its effort to build a robust air transportation network in India, IndiGo, country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest and fastest growing carrier, today announced the commencement of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[11299,10511,11300,11296,1474,11036,11298,11297,829,830,11301,11302],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-health-hotel-leisure-food-fashion","category-travel-tour-vacation","tag-1000-flights","tag-aircraft","tag-atr-72-600","tag-atr-operations","tag-hyderabad","tag-indigo","tag-maiden-atr-flight","tag-mangalore","tag-narendra-modi","tag-prime-minister","tag-regional-connectivity","tag-udan"],"views":1402,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IndiGo-commences-ATR-operations_Lamp-lighting-ceremony-at-Hyderabad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}