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Air India Express (IX, Mumbai Int'l), IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int'l), Jet Airways (9W, Mumbai Int'l), SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int'l), and GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int'l) all said they are ready to commence operations from the new airport at Kannur in the southern Indian state of Kerala when it opens on December 9, 2018, New Indian Express has reported.

While the exact proposed schedules have not been revealed, the carriers said they would seek to launch both domestic and international routes.

Non-Indian airlines such as Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int'l), Oman Air (WY, Muscat), flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int'l), Air Arabia (G9, Sharjah), and Gulf Air (GF, Bahrain Int'l) also expressed interest in serving Kannur. However, during the initial phase of the airport operations, only domestic airlines will be permitted to fly to and from the city.

Air India Express already announced earlier this year that it would launch services out of Kannur to each of Dubai...

flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int'l) has announced it will operate flights to 39 cities from Dubai World Central (DWC) for the duration of Dubai Int'l (DXB)'s southern runway refurbishment works due to take place next year.

The Emirati carrier said in a statement that over the 45-day period running from April 16 to May 30, 2019, it would serve the following cities from DWC (those denoted with an * will be available from both DXB and DWC for the duration of works):

• Addis Ababa;
• Abha;
• Ahmedabad;
• Amman Queen Alia*;
• Bahrain Int'l*;
• Beirut*;
• Mumbai Int'l;
• Colombo Int'l;
• Kochi Int'l;
• Delhi Int'l;
• Dammam*;
• Gassim;
• Jazan;
• Hail;
• Alexandria Borg el Arab*;
• Hyderabad Int'l;
• Isfahan Int'l;
• Jeddah*;
• Kabul*;
• Karachi Int'l;
• Khartoum*;
• Kuwait*;
• Lucknow;
• Lar Larestan;
• Faisalabad;
• Chennai;
...

Adria Airways (JP, Ljubljana) is mulling launching its maiden intercontinental route to Dubai as a part of its planned network expansion, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Schneider told Aktuality.sk.

Among other destinations floated by Schneider there were a point in Italy and more airports in south-western Europe.

According to the ch-aviation capacity module, the Slovenian flag carrier currently operates an exclusively European network, basing its aircraft at Ljubljana, Pristina, and soon Paderborn/Lippstadt. Adria operates three A319-100s, three CRJ-700s (including one wet-leased to Luxair), nine CRJ-900s (two wet-leased to Austrian Airlines), and six Saab 2000s.

While Ljubljana does not currently have a direct service to Dubai, in the former Yugoslav countries Emirates serves Zagreb, while flydubai operates to Belgrade (and replaces Emirates in Zagreb in the winter).