Coochbehar airport likely to be operational in three months

Kolkata: The Coochbehar airport in North Bengal is likely to be operational in about three months time, trailing behind the schedule by a year.
Though expansion and modernisation of the airport was done by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) long back, the airport could not be made operational for want of additional aircraft by the operators Deccan.
"We expect to begin operation at Coochbehar airport with the availability of an additional ATR aircraft by the middle of this year", Deccan Executive Chairman Capt Gopinath told PTI over phone.
"We are jointly working on route rationalisation plan and business strategies with the Kingfisher Airlines, which had taken over the Deccan, to find out a mechanism to link new destinations in different states", Gopinath said.
Announcing the Deccan's fleet expansion with the induction of four ATRs within two to three months, Gopinath said that one of the four ATRs would be earmarked for Kolkata, having at present seven aircraft.
30/03/08 PTI/Economic Times

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