Deccan Charters re-links steel city with Kolkata

Jamshedpur: Air connectivity to this steel city was restored on Monday when Deccan Charters Ltd (DCL) chairman G R Gopinath flew into the city on the company’s 19-seater turbo prop aircraft with his team to announce that his airline, only into chartered flights till now, would commence for the first time three non-scheduled Kolkata-Jamshedpur and back passenger flights from Tuesday.
Deccan Charters Ltd operating with a fleet of 15 aircraft (12 helicopters and 3 aero planes) from over 10 operational and engineering bases is India’s leading general aviation services company offering aircraft maintenance, charter services and management.
The steel city had air connectivity with Kolkata till November 15, 2009 when Kingfisher withdrew its services citing downgrading of the airport by the DGCA from ‘3C’ to ‘2C’.
Speaking to the media an upbeat Gopinath however was confident that he would, in the next five to six months, be able to provide a bigger ATR-72 service to the city and that he had already placed orders for the planes.
17/08/10 Financial Express

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