Thursday 16 August 2018

Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines links Guwahati with Singapore from 29 September 2018

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals





According to the latest Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines ticketing schedules as of 17 August 2018, the Bhutanese national flag carrier launches regular scheduled flights linking Guwahati with Paro and Singapore from Paro from 29 September 2018 onwards with its A319 aircraft. 

According to Drukair's ticketing web-site, Drukair first scheduled flight KB540 departs from Paro on 29 September 2018 for Singapore via Guwahati at 7.30 am, arrives in Guwahati at 7.55 am to pick up Singapore-bound Assam passengers, leaves Guwahati for Singapore at 8.35 am and touches down in Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 1 at 3.35 pm. 

The first outbound scheduled flight from Singapore to Guwahati, KB541, takes off from Singapore on 30 September 2018 at 6.30 am, transits in Guwahati at 8.30 am local time before leaving Guwahati for Paro at 9.10 am and arriving in Paro at 10.30 am on the same day.

Drukair flies from Paro to Guwahati and Singapore on Saturdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 29 September to end of November 2018. From 1 December 2018, the airline has adjusted the flight timings to Singapore from Paro as follows:-

Flight KB540 departs from Paro for Guwahati at 8.05 am, arrives in Guwahati at 8.30 am local time before leaving Guwahati for Singapore at 9.10 am and touching down in Singapore at 4.10 pm. There are no changes to the outbound flights from Singapore to Guwahati and Paro. However, Drukair operates flights from December 2018 onwards to Guwahati and Singapore on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and leave for Guwahati and Paro on Thursdays and Sundays only.

With the introduction of the Paro-Guwahati-Singapore flights, Drukair has delisted the Paro-Kolkata-Singapore-Kolkata-Paro flights (KB500/KB501) from ticketing for the last days of KB500 and KB501 are on 26 and 27 September 2019 respectively. Drukair's Guwahati-Suvarnabhumi route will close and Guwahati-Singapore route will be the Assam airport's only international route while Changi Airport adds Guwahati as its latest international destination on its route network.

Customers can now book Drukair's flights to Guwahati and Paro from Singapore on Drukair's web-site and at its sales offices.

Customers who have booked Drukair's flights to Kolkata from Singapore and Guwahati from Bangkok on the affected routes and dates should contact Drukair sales offices in Singapore and Bangkok, and relevant Little India travel agents on refunds if they have not done so. The Singapore passenger sales office of Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines is Drukasia.

Guwahati is the largest city of the State of Assam in northeast India bordering Bhutan that sells and exports the famous Assam tea and Assam silk and engages in petroleum manufacturing and export. It is known also as the City of Temples. Other than plenty of temples, it is home to India professional football team NorthEast United FC of Indian Super League, India's largest cricket stadium and national parks where tigers, gaurs, one-horn rhinoceros, Asian elephants and endangered birds can be seen and orchids bloom. Foxtail orchid is the state flower of Assam.

For updated flight information, visit Drukair at www.drukair.com.bt.

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