CHENNAI: The Chennai-based private carrier, Paramount Airways, will increase its daily flight operations out of Chennai Kamaraj Domestic Terminal to 25 from the present 14.

Giving details of the increased frequency of services out of Chennai with effect from June 29 (Thursday), the Managing Director of Paramount Airways, M. Thiagarajan, told The Hindu that the airline would fly thrice daily services to Bangalore and Hyderabad from June 29.

"The new services to Hyderabad and Bangalore would be a boon to link conveniently all the three major Information Technology hubs in South India", Mr. Thiagarajan said.

Embraer jets

Speaking on the expansion of the airline, which currently operates with two 72-seater Embraer jets, Mr. Thiagarajan noted that with the arrival of the third Embraer jet from Brazil on July 7 to Chennai, the airline will introduce flights to Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore.

The increase in fleet would also facilitate the airline to re-introduce flights to Delhi, increase frequencies to Kochi, besides introduce services to Mumbai from Chennai.

Presently, the airline flies to Coimbatore, Madurai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

Mr. Thiagarajan said recently the airline had signed an agreement with the Amadeus Reservation System, providing hassle free bookings to be made by over 1,600 travel agencies across the country.

Dual seating

The Managing Director said with the arrival of the third Embraer jet from Brazil, the airline which was currently an all "Business class airline" would provide dual seating configuration with 11 First Class seats being introduced.

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