Vistara yesterday inaugurated flight services from Mumbai to Malé becoming the 3rd Indian airline to offer nonstop flights between the two cities.
The Tata-SIA carrier tweeted:
The inaugural flight, operated by the airline’s Airbus A320neo aircraft, departed Mumbai at 10:14 (IST) and landed in Malé at 12:25 (MVT) according to Flightradar24.
With this, Vistara has become the only full service carrier and also the only airline to offer premium economy class of travel on the route, in addition to business class and economy class.
The airline will fly 3-times-a-week on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays under the air travel bubble agreement signed between India and Maldives.
Check the schedule here:
- Mumbai-Malé
- Departure time- 10:10
- Arrival time- 12:25
- Flight time- 2 hours and 45 minutes
- Flight number- UK271
- Malé-Mumbai
- Departure time- 13:40
- Arrival time- 16:55
- Flight time- 2 hours and 45 minutes
- Flight number- UK272
Leslie Thng, Chief Executive Officer, Vistara said:
Maldives is one of the most popular holiday destinations among travellers, not just in India, but from around the world. We are happy to be able to offer our customers the choice of flying their favourite and India’s best airline on this route. We are sure that Vistara will play an important role in making every customer’s holiday even more pleasant and memorable by giving them a world-class travel experience.
Indigo and GoAir also operates flights between Mumbai and Malé.
Featured image by Vistara