Vistara ends journey with last flight to Singapore

The last flight of Vistara took off from Delhi for Singapore shortly after midnight, November 12, ahead of the merger of the airline with Air India.

UK 986, that took off around the same time from Mumbai for Delhi, was the last domestic flight, while UK 115 that departed from Delhi for Singapore, was the last international flight of Vistara.

These are the two flights to use the code ‘UK’ for the last time and from Tuesday, November 12, onwards, Vistara flights will have the new code ‘AI2XXX’.

A joint venture between Tatas and Singapore Airlines, Vistara started flying nearly 10 years ago on January 9, 2015.

Vistara is merging with Air India and Singapore Airlines will have a 25.1 percent stake in the merged entity.

Meanwhile, the first flight of the integrated Air India-Vistara entity took off for Mumbai from Doha on Monday night.

The flight operating with the code ‘AI2286’ departed Doha at around 10.07 pm local time and was expected to land in Mumbai early on Tuesday morning.

It is also the first international flight of the merged entity.

On the domestic sector, the entity’s first scheduled flight AI2984 took off from Mumbai to Delhi at around 1.30 am on Tuesday morning. It is being operated with an A320 plane.