Emirates Airline announced on Wednesday that its plans to start non-stop services to Ahmedabad giving a direct link between the Indian city and Dubai.According to a press release, the airline would operate six flights per week to Ahmedabad from October 28. Flights would be operated in two and three class configurations using Airbus 330-200 and Boeing 777-200 aircraft. The Dubai-Ahmedabad service will take approximately three hours, and would have 1,500 passenger seats and over 100 tonnes of cargo capacity per week on the route.

Ahmedabad would be the airline’s ninth touch base in India. It already operates services from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkata and Bangalore.

The Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline & Group, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, said, “We are pleased that our enhanced presence will provide travelers, particularly those in West Asia with more convenient access to India. I am also confident the new, direct link will stimulate increased commerce and tourism exchange between long-standing partners the UAE and India, and prove popular with business and leisure travelers”.