AI to acquire 3 new mid-sized aircraft to get services to Mysore

Mysore: As stakeholders are batting for commercial launch of Mysore airport, there is good news.
Air India has proposed to acquire three mid-sized aircraft for operations in southern states. In what has come as a boost to Mysores operation, Air India is headed by Arvind Jadhav, a Karnataka cadre IAS officer, who, before taking up assignment in the Union civil aviation ministry, was principal secretary in the infrastructure development department in Karnataka. He was overseeing development of the airport. Also, he has visited the facility many times.
When Mysore MP H Vishwanath contacted Jadhav, the latter confirmed that the airline will acquire three new mid-sized aircraft.
Vishwanath also approached civil aviation minister Praful Patel and sought his intervention to get air services to Mysore.
Non-availability of ATR-type mid-sized aircraft with Air India is a hindrance for air operations in South India, which Vishwanath realized at a meeting on December 17. The meeting was held to discuss the commercial launch of Mandakalli airport.
29/12/09 H M Aravind/Times of India

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