Paramount Airways to increase total number of flights to 24

New round-trips to Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi

BY A CORRESPONDENT
February 15, 2006

Paramount Airways is planning to increase the total number of flights to 24 per day on round trips on Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi routes from the first week of March. This would an increase of around 18 services from the present six daily operations that is being conducted by a single Embraer aircraft.

Paramount intends to induct a second Brazilian Embraer 72-seater jet on February 22 that would be pressed into service for these operations. Later, it will link all major Southern Indian points, with exceptions of only Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore.

Paramount Airways would operate flights thrice daily to Bangalore, twice to Hyderabad and once to Kochi. It will be carrying 1,700 passengers daily, an increase from the present 420 passengers ferried on a daily basis.

The induction of the second Embraer jet would facilitate convenient connections to Hyderabad, Kochi and Chennai from Bangalore. Paramount plans to expand to more business destinations soon. However, the destinations are yet to be decided.