Ranchi’s veggie air route to Chandigarh

Ranchi: MDLR Airlines today extended its Chandigarh-Delhi flight to Ranchi. The state capital can now boast of five flights to Delhi but the first to Chandigarh and also the first flight to the national capital in prime-time. All the other flights take off in the evening hours.
But the MDLR flight, the 70-seater Avro, will take off from Chandigarh at 7.30 in the morning, landing here via Delhi three hours later. It will take off at 10.50 am and land in Delhi by Noon, claimed Kaustav M. Dhar, President (Commercial and Special Projects).
The airline plans to connect Jamshedpur with Calcutta by this winter and also introduce flights from the state to some of the southern states by December, he asserted.
The first vegetarian airline, he informed, will extend the flight to Calcutta in the first week of June. It also plans to operate the flight twice a day in the near future, he claimed.
He said the fares will start from Rs 1,000 and will always be 15-20 per cent lower than other full services airlines like Indian and Air Sahara. Tickets till May 26 have been sold out, he claimed.
He added unlike other airlines, MDLR is committed to remaining a regional operator that will connect state capitals and metros.
14/05/07 The Telegraph

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