Air link with small towns

Calcutta: Low-cost carrier Air Deccan on Friday announced plans to start operations to a number of towns not covered by air services. Steel towns Jamshedpur and Rourkela and Bodh Gaya, popular with Buddhist pilgrims, are among the destinations.
“The airline will launch services to the new destinations by the end of the year,” said G.R. Gopinath, managing director, Air Deccan.
The airline, which now flies to 19 destinations from the city, will start Calcutta-Jamshedpur-Calcutta operations in three months. Flights to Jorhat, Bodh Gaya, Cooch Behar and Rourkela from the city will be started later.
Air Deccan has recently launched operations to Imphal and Dimapur from Calcutta.
The airline is also planning to make Calcutta a major operational hub. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has allotted it a hangar at the city airport. Air Deccan was using the hangars of Indian and Jet Airways.
20/04/07 The Telegraph

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