<span style="color: #222222;">Israel's Arkia Airlines will introduce direct flights to two Indian cities — Goa and Kochi from September 2019. Company officials said Arkia will operate the new flights from September 2019 onwards using recently acquired Airbus 321 neo LR. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Flights will take about seven hours and will operate throughout the year, except during the monsoon season in India. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Israeli airlines' decision came after India's national-carrier Air India last year introduced direct flights between Delhi and Tel Aviv.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The flight to Goa will take off on Tuesdays, while there will be two weekly flights to Kochi taking off on Mondays and Fridays in September-October, and on Sundays and Thursdays starting on October 27. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The airlines' representatives said that the sale of tickets for the flights will begin on March 24. </span><br />