Bengaluru based all Embraer regional carrier Star Air will add Mundra to its network starting April 25, 2026. The airline has said that it would be the 32nd destination for the airline. The airline will operate 38 direct weekly flights connecting Mundra with Mumbai, Hindon, Gopa – Mopa and Surat.
| Sector | Dep Time | Arr Time | Days of Ops |
| BOM-MDA | 12:45 | 14:15 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Sat |
| MDA-BOM | 14:45 | 16:15 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Sat |
| GOX-MDA | 08:30 | 10:15 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri & Sun |
| MDA-GOX | 17:05 | 18:50 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri & Sun |
| MDA-HDO | 13:45 | 15:45 | Tue & Wed |
| MDA-HDO | 10:45 | 12:45 | Tue & Wed |
| HDO-MDA | 13:15 | 15:15 | Thu |
| HDO-MDA | 16:15 | 18:15 | Tue & Wed |
| MDA-STV | 10:45 | 11:55 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun |
| STV-MDA | 15:25 | 16:35 | Mon, Fri & Sun |
| STV-MDA | 12:15 | 13:15 | Tue & Wed |
The airline currently has eight E-175s in its fleet, having retired all its E-145s from active service. Mundra (IATA: MDA) is the first airport for the Adani group, with the airport being built in the 2000s to handle private jets when the group was setting up the Mundra port. Over the years, the group ventured into airports business and now handle Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow, Trivandrum and Mangalore airports.
The services to Mundra are being offered from Mumbai’s CSMIA, after the airline quietly pulled out of Navi Mumbai International Airport, within weeks of launching services. While promising, the NMIA is seeing reduction in services from initial announcements, assumed to be largely due to the last mile connectivity issues.
Network Thoughts
Star Air is the longest serving private regional carrier in India. Over the years it has ventured out of the RCS-UDAN scheme to offer routes which are unique and compete with other carriers as well. However, the uniformity of timings is one of the core philosophies of a good network and Star Air has far too many timings for a single sector. They are because of non-daily operations on certain sectors along with operational challenges like NOTAMs, yet one wonders what the impact would be had the schedule been normalised in a better manner.
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