Indigo airline launches Tbilisi-Delhi flights
The Indian airline will operate three weekly flights between the two locations. Photo: TAV Georgia
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Indigo, a major Indian budget airline, has launched direct flights linking Delhi with Tbilisi International Airport.
TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports, announced the news on Wednesday, noting 186 passengers had boarded the company’s first flight.
The Indian airline will operate three weekly flights between the two locations.
Irakli Karkashadze, the Director of the United Airports of Georgia, said the airports body had “successfully concluded the long, five-year, rather tense negotiations” with the airline to start operations in Georgia.
Irakli Karkashadze, the Director of the United Airports of Georgia, Photo: United Airports of Georgia
He said the body was in “intensive negotiations” with the company to increase the frequency of the flights up to daily operations “in the near future”.
Karkashadze added flights to Deli represented a “completely new” tourist market for Georgia that would “certainly contribute” to the development of the sector in the country.
Georgian Wings on Tuesday launched direct flights between Tbilisi International Airport in the Georgian capital and the Black Sea city of Batumi, marking the airline’s first demonstration flight and project presentation.
The Kazakh budget airline FlyArystan has started regular flights from Almaty to western Georgia’s Kutaisi Airport, the United Airports of Georgia said on Monday.
Uzbekistan Airways, the flag carrier airline of the country, will carry passengers twice a week between Tashkent and Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi.
Uzbekistan’s Centrum Air budget airline will launch direct flights linking Tashkent and Tbilisi later this month, the United Airports of Georgia announced on Tuesday.
Journalists from leading Indian publications are visiting Georgia’s tourist sites in the latest promotion effort of the country’s visitor attractions by the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Western Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport saw a record-high passenger flow last month, serving 189,166 passengers - a 123 percent increase compared to the same month of the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the United Airports of Georgia said on Wednesday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Nilakshi Saha Sinha, the Indian Ambassador to the country, on Thursday discussed the existing relations and the future prospects of cooperation.