Kingfisher to launch new flight on Kolkata-Patna route

Patna: Private operator Kingfisher airlines is likely to introduce a morning flight on Kolkata-Patna-Kolkata route from the first week of December. The said flight would cover the distance between Patna and Kolkata in one hour 10 minutes.
"Things have almost been finalized and a formal announcement in this regard will be made very soon," a Kingfisher official, requesting anonymity, told TOI on Tuesday.
He said that the 66-seater ATR-72-500 would operate on this route and the lowest rate for a Patna-Kolkata ticket would be around Rs 1,900.
City fliers may get one more option to fly to Mumbai. Jet Airways recently took a feedback of major travel agencies to assess the availability of passengers on this route. This was done with a view to introducing airlines’ Jet Konnect services on the Mumbai-Bhubaneshwar-Patna-Mumbai route.
"The feedback has been sent to the airlines head office, but due to unavailability of aircraft, the decision to introduce the flight has been kept pending," aviation industry sources said.
Incidentally, Patna got Jet Airways’ low cost Jet Konnect services for the first time this month only with the introduction of a new flight on Delhi-Patna-Delhi route.
25/11/09 Sanjeev Kumar Verma/Times of India

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