Air India Express adds more routes to Sharjah

Air India Express will connect Sharjah with Chandigarh and Tiruchirapalli (in Tamil Nadu) from September. The airline will introduce three non-stop flights per week each from Chandigarh (IXC) and Tiruchirapalli (TRZ), to add Sharjah International Airport, bringing the total number of its routes between Sharjah and Indian destinations up to seven. Air India Express has been expanding its services to destinations in the UAE, including daily Mumbai-Dubai, MumbaiSharjah, New Delhi-Dubai and New Delhi-Abu Dhabi routes, which it added earlier this year. According to the airline, the number of its weekly flights between India and the UAE increased from 107 flights to 146 flights per week before the summer. Air India Express now flies direct to Sharjah from Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai, New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram and Varanasi. India is well connected to Sharjah, with Sharjah-headquartered Air Arabia operating flights between Sharjah and 13 Indian destinations. Jet Airways operates direct daily flights on Sharjah-Kochi and SharjahMangaluru (IXE) routes.