Bangalore 365

Dragonair, the sister airline of Cathay Pacific Airways, is scheduled to launch its India operations, with daily flights to Bangalore, starting May 1, 2008. The Hong Kong-based company has got the requisite permission to operate 30 flights to India, including 23 by Cathay Pacific and the rest by Dragonair. 

Cathay Pacific on Wednesday announced it would soon launch a service to Chennai and significantly increase the number of its flights to the national capital and Mumbai.

In addition, its sister airline Dragonair would launch a daily flight between Hong Kong and Bangalore from May 1, using an Airbus A 330-300 aircraft.

From early June, the airline would operate a total of 23 new flights, including enhancing its Delhi operations to double dailies and introducing four flights a week to Chennai.

The extra flights to Mumbai would also operate to Dubai, a Cathay spokesperson said.

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