Leelabari gets air connectivity with Dibrugarh, Jorhat

North Lakhimpur: Bringing cheers to the public of Brahmaputra's north bank of Assam and bordering Arunachal Pradesh, Leelabari airport in North Lakhimpur has again been connected to Dibrugarh and Jorhat by air. This was stated by Uday Sankar Hazarika of the DGA Travels here recently.
The private sector airliner Air Deccan began its Guwahati-Leelabari services from 2006 along with the Alliance Air flights with six flights a week. But the popular demand for the resumption of the air connectivity to Dibrugarh and Jorhat from Leelabari remained unfulfilled till recently. Now the announcement by the public sector Indian to operate flights to these two destinations have brought joy as new years gift to North Lakhimpur.
This news comes as a New Year gift for the people of North Lakhimpur which marks an end to a long and agonizing wait to see the resumption of flights from Leelabari to Dibrugarh and Jorhat - two important destinations of Assam after Guwahati - after a gap of almost 16 year.
Leelabari was wiped out from the civil aviation map of the country in 1988 when the then Indian Airlines, that had been operating daily flights to this airport connecting Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Guwahati and Kolkata by a Fokker aircraft, stopped operating the service due to non-profitability and growing aviation fuel hike.
21/01/08 Buljit Buragohain/Assam Times

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