Now charter a flight for just Rs 60,000

Private charter operators (PCOs) will be starting their operations from non-metros like Indore, Ahmedabad and Nashik, thereby reducing the current fares by almost 50 per cent. So you will no longer have to cough up lakhs of rupees to hire a charter plane.
“We have started services from Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Indore and for those who live in these places, it is convenient and affordable,” says Captain Yashraj Tongia, chief flying instructor, Yash Air, which recently started One Sky, a private charter service.
Earlier, for instance, if anybody wanted to hire a charter plane in India, then he had to get in touch with operators who function from Mumbai or Delhi. The empty aircraft would come to pick you and drop you at your destination.
It would go back to its base in either Mumbai or Delhi and then again come to pick you and take you back to your home town. As the aircraft flew to and fro to its headquarters, it had to levy heavy aircraft position charges that are added to your fare. “While operating from these mini-metros, these charges are reduced. And the customer just has to pay for his travelling,” says Tongia.
13/04/08 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Apr 2008, New Apr 2008