Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Vijayawada: Airlines not serious about Pushkarams

Vijayawada: The Vijayawada airport may not have CISF security for some more time. If the revenue of an airport crosses Rs 18 crore per annum, then only CISF can engage its team. As of now, Vijayawada airport’s revenue hasn’t crossed even Rs 6 crore per annum. It is learnt that the CISF has reportedly kept the the civil aviation ministry has kept the prposal over the airport security in pending.

Major airlines are not prepared to run flights for the ensuing Pushkarams. Many seers and VIPs from across the country are expected to descend on the city for Krishna Pushkarams but the airline companies have not intimated about their preparedness to the Vijayawada airport authorities even when the latter tried to gather information about it from  major domestic airlines like Spice Jet, Air India, Air Coasta and Jet Airways.

These airlines seem not be serious about the Pushkarams even when celebrity traffic might increase to the city during that time. The present operations of flights per day are 36, while it was 22 per day, in the last quarter, according to the authorities. Though the traffic has been gradually increasing, the airlines still are in a dilemma over increasing their services.
12/07/16 Deccan Chronicle
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