Nagaland govt pushing for direct Delhi flight

Delhi: A frustrated government of Nagaland has dispatched the state’s chief secretary to Delhi to lobby a number of major private airlines in India to provide Delhi-Dimapur air connectivity. The current flights-scheme and services in Dimapur have apparently not left the state government too happy and the state administration has been looking for a private operator that would provided at least a semblance of regular air linkage with the country’s capital.
To augment and, hopefully, rejuvenate the currently-sloppy air services in Nagaland, chief secretary of the state Lalthara, IAS, had been camping in Delhi meeting with a number of private airline services the first week of January. The chief secretary is informed to have met with corporate executives of leading private airlines in India Kingfisher and Spicejet, as well as with AirIndia, seeking from them a Delhi-Dimapur (Nagaland) air connectivity to complement the Imphal-Guwhati-Delhi service. Another private airline service Lalthara approached was domestic airlines Indigo.
Updates said Lalthara had several meetings with private air giant Kingfisher since December 2010 and assurances were given that the matter would be ‘looked into’ by the airlines. However, anything concrete or positive has yet to come up, highly-placed sources in the government informed. The economic feasibility of running direct flights is understood to be promising considering the Delhi-Dimapur link would also be used as connecting flight for passengers of other states unlike the current system where travelers form Nagaland have to catch a different flight connecting with other state destinations.
23/01/11 Morung Express

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011