Mangalore will have one more daily flight service to Delhi, which will be the third one, a new thrice in a week flight service to Thiruvananthapuram and there will be more weekly flight connections to Dammam, Doha, Kuwait, Jeddah and Bahrain during the winter schedule – 2025 of airlines which will come into effect from Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Air India Express and IndiGo operating from Mangalore International Airport Ltd., have firmed up their operation plans for the schedule that will continue until March 28, 2026.
Mangalore -Delhi flights
The airport said in a release on Saturday (October 25), that Air India Express, will introduce its second daily flight between Mangalore and Delhi (IX 1781/IX 1782) from October 27 to supplement its existing flight (IX 1275/IX 1276) between Delhi and Mangalore. IndiGo is currently operating a daily flight on the same sector. Hence there will be three daily flights between the port city and the national capital from October 27.
Air India Express will continue with two daily flights between Mangalore and Bangalore and one daily flight to Mumbai.
| Airline | Departure | Arrival | Schedule |
| IXE-DEL (IX 1781) | 12:30 | 15:25 | Daily |
| DEL-IXE (IX 1782) | 16:15 | 19:10 | Daily |
Mangalore -Thirvananthapuram service
The Air India Express, in a first, has also announced three weekly direct flights from Mangalore to Thiruvananthapuram, starting from October 27. While flight IX 5531 will operate from Mangalore to Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, flight IX 5532 will operate from Thiruvananthapuram to Mangaluru on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
| Airline | Departure | Arrival | Schedule |
| IXE-TRV (IX 5531) | 09:15 | 10:35 | Mon-Wed-Fri |
| TRV-IXE (IX 5532) | 04:25 | 05:45 | Tue-Thu-Sat |
