SpiceJet to start flights to London from 4 December
Live MintNo-frill carrier SpiceJet will begin flying from New Delhi and Mumbai to London’s Heathrow airport from 4 December, the airline’s chairman and MD Ajay Singh said on Monday. The airline will operate two weekly flights between Delhi and London and one weekly flight between Mumbai and London on an Airbus A330 aircraft, which it recently took on a wet lease for long-haul international operations. SpiceJet had in August secured slots at Heathrow to operate flights from 1 September, about a fortnight after it was designated as an Indian scheduled carrier to the UK. At present, Indian airlines, which include national carrier Air India and Vistara—a joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines—operate multiple weekly flights between India and the UK.