IndiGo launches new route from Mumbai to Chandigarh

• The Indian low-cost airline IndiGo commenced twice-daily operations on the 1,340-kilometre route from Mumbai (BOM) to Chandigarh (IXC) in the northern Indian state of Punjab. All flights to this new destination are operated with the airline’s fleet of A320s. Three carriers already serve the route: GoAir (twice-daily), Jet Airways (daily), and Kingfisher (daily). Speaking at the launch of the new route on 10 September in Mumbai, Aditya Ghosh, IndiGo’s president, said: ”Mumbai-Chandigarh emerged as a sector that has started attracting both leisure and business passengers in the recent past, and hold immense potential for IndiGo.”