Amritsar-Dubai flight launched

AMRITSAR: The maiden DubaiAmritsar flight of SpiceJet today landed at Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport with 174 passengers onboard

Updated At : 06:59 AM Nov 16, 2015 IST

Officials of the Airport Authority of India and SpiceJet flag off maiden Amritsar-Dubai flight on Sunday. PHOTO: RK SONI

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 15

The maiden Dubai-Amritsar flight of SpiceJet today landed at Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport with 174 passengers onboard.

The budget airline has launched its six-day week direct flight between Dubai-Amritsar-Dubai.

The long-standing of demand of passengers of NRI origin for direct air connectivity to the Middle East has been met. Already, Air India Express is operating an Amritsar-Delhi-Dubai flight. The flight takes about six to eight hours to complete the journey as the passengers need to wait at the Delhi airport for the connecting flight.

GP Gupta, chief administrative officer, SpiceJet, said the new flight took less than three hours to reach the destination. He said precious time and money of passengers was saved.