Daily Flights Between Chennai and Jaffna Will Now Be Operated by Alliance Air

Alliance Air of India has started daily commercial flights between Chennai and Jaffna, Sri Lanka, up from the previous four times weekly service. This step is expected to increase travel and commerce between the two nations.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Union Minister of Civil Aviation, made the announcement earlier this month at the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) annual conference held in Colombo about the decision to enhance the frequency of flights between Chennai and the mostly Tamil city of Jaffna.

 

According to aviation authorities, regular commercial service between Chennai and the northern Jaffna International Airport (JIA) started on Sunday.

 

The first of daily flights along this route, which arrived in Jaffna at 11:30 a.m., was verified by the chief airport manager, Aruna Rajapaksa, according to a story published on Sunday by the NewsFirst news site.

 

Alliance Air will begin regularly scheduled daily service between Jaffna and Chennai on July 16, 2023. According to a press statement from Sri Lanka’s Airport and Aviation Services, they will begin flying its ATR72 aircraft, which has a seating capacity of 70 people.

 

Due to the rising demand for flights to the JIA, Alliance Air decided to increase the frequency of its operations to a daily flight service from its original goal of four flights per week beginning on December 15, 2022.

 

With arrivals at 11:30 am and departures to Chennai at 12:30 pm, the flights are planned to provide timely and convenient travel alternatives for customers, it was said.

 

Move south Visit Chennai. You had a thrilling journey in Chennai. Fly from Jaffna, Mysore, and Hyderabad directly to Chennai,” the Indian government-owned airline tweeted on Sunday.

 

The JIA, which was created with Indian support, is presently expanding its schedule of local and international flights.

 

Three years after the island country had stopped operating flights between Chennai and Jaffna because of the COVID-19 epidemic, India and Sri Lanka restarted the flights in December 2022.

 

In October 2019, the Jaffna International Airport in Palaly, Sri Lanka, became the country’s third international airport and welcomed its inaugural aircraft from Chennai.

 

For cash-strapped Sri Lanka, tourism is the main source of foreign currency profits. However, the pandemic’s start in 2020 significantly devastated Sri Lanka’s tourist industry, which was a major contributor to the country’s economic woes.