New flights from Pune yet to be finalised

Pune: Officials at the Airports Authority of India (AAI) here are keeping their fingers crossed over the possibility of new flight services going operational from the city's Lohegaon civil enclave during the summer schedule for airlines beginning March 29.
"We are expecting an approved schedule of flights anytime this week from our New Delhi head office," a senior AAI Pune official told TOI on Monday. "There are several proposals for new flights, time adjustment, re-routing, etc., but it all depends on what finally gets approved during the ongoing joint consultation between the AAI and the Indian Air Force (IAF) in New Delhi," he said.
The IAF controls the Lohegaon civil enclave, which currently handles 38 passenger flights every day to destinations like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Chennai, Indore and Goa, besides a couple of international flights to Dubai and Frankfurt, which operate three and four days in a week, respectively. On an average, more than 6,000 passengers daily fly in and out of Pune city.
Usually, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approves the domestic flight schedule taking into account the country-wide operation of flight services. For civil enclaves like Lohegaon though, a final schedule is worked out by way of joint consultation between the AAI and the IAF higher ups in New Delhi, taking into account the availability of time slots, IAF's own requirement and allied factors.
22/03/11 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Mar 2011