First international chartered flight to land at Magdalla airport

Surat new chapter in the city's aviation history will be written on Friday when an international chartered flight from Luton airport will land at Magdalla, signifying Surat's growth in the last two decades.
Despite a Rs 50,000-crore industrial belt at Hajira and a diamond industry with a turnover of Rs 65,000 crore, the city has never been seen as an aviation destination.
Senior officials of corporate houses at Hajira had to travel by road either from Mumbai or Ahmedabad to reach the diamond city. A European diamond trader preferred to complete his work in Mumbai rather than visit Surat as then he would have to travel four hours in a cab.
But now with a corporate house bringing in its top officials from London to Surat directly by a chartered flight, things will change dramatically. The journey from Luton to Magdalla airport will be completed in eight hours by the private aircraft of the corporate house when it lands here at 8.30 am on Friday.
22/10/09 Himanshu Bhatt/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Oct 2009, Foreign Oct 2009