Indian Airlines and its subsidiary Alliance Air will provide new links, additional capacity and increased frequencies for its winter schedule with effect from October 26.

The new link would be on the Chennai-Vishakapatnam-Raipur-Delhi sector, with a Boeing 737 operating four flights a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

IA would also restart its Dornier service on the Goa-Agatti-Goa sector thrice-a-week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Ahead of the winter schedule, the airline has already started a new link on Jaipur-Delhi-Bangkok-Singapore sector with two flights a week on Wednesdays and Sundays.

It was also increasing its flights on the Mumbai-Hyderabad-Mumbai sectors to 28 a week from 21 earlier, thus providing an additional 1,200 seats, an IA release said.

Over 1000 seats would also be made available through increased frequencies of its Boeing 737 operations on the Mumbai-Vadodara-Mumbai sector.

On the Delhi-Chennai route, the airline would offer over 1000 seats more by ramping up its weekly flights to 28 from the current 21.

IA is also adding more capacity with change in aircraft on the Kolkata-Bagdogra as well as Kolkata-Dibrugarh sectors.

It would also offer a daily flight on the Delhi-Jammu-Srinagar-Delhi sector as against the existing four flights a week.

The carrier has also restructured some of the routes resulting in additional capacity.

With daily terminator flights on Delhi-Vadodara, Delhi-Ahmedabad and Delhi-Bhubaneshwar sectors as well as increased frequencies on the Leh-Jammu/ Leh-Srinagar sectors, the airline would offer more seats on these routes.

On the Delh-Nagpur sector, there would be four weekly flights apart from three flights a week on the Delhi-Raipur-Nagpur-Delhi route, thus providing more capacity.

IA said the change in schedule was intended to give a boost to domestic tourism and also help sustain the popular response to its holiday packages.

The Flyaway Packages are now available from various stations on the airline's network to Andaman, Assam, West Bengal, Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh as well as Yangon on the international circuit till March 31, 2004.