{"id":6165,"date":"2021-09-14T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flyamritsarairport.com\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:26:19","slug":"amritsar-airport-continues-to-recover-its-international-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/amritsar-airport-continues-to-recover-its-international-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Amritsar Airport Continues To Recover Its International Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the international air travel market continues to recover amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar has now once again started to recover its international network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a month, the airport has recovered its direct connectivity with Europe, with the Indian national carrier, Air India resuming its non-stop flights between Amritsar and London & Birmingham in the UK as well as Rome in Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air India in December 2020 had to suspend both Amritsar-London\/Birmingham routes due to several travel restrictions imposed in both the countries, while the Rome route was also suspended in late April 2021 due to restrictions imposed in Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the schedule available from Air India website, all these destinations are currently will be served once-weekly until the end of Summer Schedule 2021. It could be expected that the airline may continue to operate all these routes to Europe in Winter Schedule 2021-22 as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resumption of all these scheduled flights to major cities of Europe will now help to bring a boost to the economy of the city as well as various industries in Punjab, including, tourism, agriculture, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar is the only airport in India to have non-stop flights to Birmingham in the UK as well as Rome in the Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UAE Market On The Rise <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Arab Emirates market of Amritsar has now once again started to put itself on the upward trajectory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Indian Low-Cost Carriers, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India Express and Full-Service Carrier, Air India has already resumed their non-stop flights between Amritsar and Dubai, Sharjah & Abu Dhabi in the UAE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the high demand, Air India has now even deployed its 256-seater state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on Amritsar-Dubai route. In addition to this, the airline has also now resumed its once-weekly non-stop flights between Amritsar and Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Air India\u2019s low-cost subsidiary, Air India Express has now also scheduled to operate twice-weekly non-stop flights between Amritsar and Sharjah, in addition to its non-stop Amritsar-Dubai flights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To benefit travellers from Punjab to UAE, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar has Rapid PCR testing facility available at the premises for the passengers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently Amritsar is directly connected with over 7 international destinations, namely, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Doha, London, Birmingham and Rome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the international borders across the globe reopen in a safe manner in the near future and the international travel demand recovers, it could be expected that Amritsar may recover its pre-pandemic international traffic levels by late 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the international air travel market continues to recover amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar has now once again started to recover its international network. Within a month, the airport has recovered its direct connectivity with Europe, with the Indian national carrier, Air India resuming its non-stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[69,70,71,19,20,72,30,73,59,74,32,75],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amritsar-abu-dhabu","tag-amritsar-air-india","tag-amritsar-air-india-express","tag-amritsar-airport","tag-amritsar-birmingham","tag-amritsar-doha","tag-amritsar-dubai","tag-amritsar-indigo","tag-amritsar-london","tag-amritsar-rome","tag-amritsar-sharjah","tag-amritsar-spicejet"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}