Pune: Low-cost carrier SpiceJet has decided to discontinue its Pune-Bangkok direct flight service with effect from the impending summer schedule that commences from the end of March 2014. "The decision has been spurred by the viability factor, that is, demand and response from travelers on this route," a SpiceJet official told TOI on Thursday.
"All passengers, who may have booked their tickets on this flight after the end of March, will be compensated with the best available options, like transfer to alternate flight or cash-back, as the case may be," the airline official said.
As of now, the Pune-Bangkok flight operates on a four-days-a-week basis; on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The summer schedule normally commences from the last Sunday of March.
The move comes as a setback to the fledgling international flight operations from Pune, considering that Bangkok was only the fourth international destination to be linked with the city, after Dubai (in 2005), Frankfurt (2008) and Sharjah (2013).
Read news in full 17/01/14 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India
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