« A pilgrimage to a callcenter · Main · Outsource This! »

October 13, 2004

The Flying Sikh: Direct Flights from Amritsar to BirminghamHolidays

I used to go from Birmingham to Amritsar by foot, but it was a very slow walk!

Birmingham International Airport (BIA) has celebrated the launch of a new non-stop long haul charter service with specialist tour operator, Midland Airways. Travellers are now able to fly direct to Amritsar, the City of the Golden Temple, from Birmingham each Friday. This service will increase to two flights per week before the end of the month and will see a third weekly departure in early December.

The flights are operated by a new airline to Birmingham, Slovak Airlines, using a 215 seater 767-200 aircraft. Although the service is operated as a charter flight, passengers have a choice of two classes - economy (203 seats) and first class (12 seats). Prices start from GBP299 return.

Currently, the weekly service departs from Birmingham each Friday at 21:00, arriving the next morning into Amritsar Airport at 09:30. The return flight leaves Amritsar on Sunday at 13:30 and arrives into Birmingham at 20:00 the same evening. These flight times will change as new frequencies are added.


[FYI: The original Flying Sikh was Milkha Singh, "the only Indian to have broken an Olympic record" (unfortunately, he broke the record in the 400m preliminaries, and then came in 4th in a photo finish in the 1960 Rome Olympics.)]

ennis on October 13, 2004 02:27 PM in Holidays · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post



2 comments

 1 · Niraj on October 14, 2004 10:31 AM · Direct link · “Quote”(?)

Armistar is starting to look like a hot destination. Singapore will start non-stop service there very soon.


 2 · Sharif Gill on July 15, 2008 06:21 AM · Direct link · “Quote”(?)

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to introduced our company which is

specialising in Sikh Pilgrimage tour of

Pakistan(Punjab) Where in the most sacred Sikh

Shrines are located besides other places in Lahore.


We are now looking for joint ventures with

International touring companies for the said

purpose We will be pleased to extened our coopration

in this regard to the best of your satisfaction

We will request you to kindly visit

www.nanak-yatra.com

Thanking you and looking forward to a positive

response.

Yours Faithfully,
Sharif Gill,
Managing Director.


Add a comment
         
 
   
   
 
Remember me?   

To prevent comment spam, please type the word brown below:


Note: Please don't feed the trolls. Requests for celebrities' contact info or homework assistance; racist, abusive, illiterate, content-free or commercial comments; personal, non-issue-focused flames; intolerant or anti-secular comments; and long, obscure rants may be deleted. Unless they’re funny. It’s all good then.

   
If you don't see your comment yet:
Wait 15 seconds and refresh your browser, don't post a duplicate.