New Delhi/Gwalior: Aiming at connecting tier-II cities with metros, Air India on Monday launched a daily Delhi-Gwalior-Mumbai-Gwalior-Delhi flight and has plans to launch five to six more such flights in the coming months.
"After this, Air India will be launching the Delhi- Ranchi-Kolkata flight very soon with an aim to connect the non-metro cities with metros," Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi said after flagging off Gwalior-Mumbai flight at Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindhia airport in Gwalior today.
The national carrier has now connected historical city of Gwalior with India's financial capital, Mumbai. The airline had been operating a Delhi-Gwalior flight with an ATR aircraft thrice a week, but now it would be operating on the route with a 122-seater Airbus 319 daily.
About the proposed introduction of more flights, Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav said the airline would be launching more such flights this summer.
"Our effort is to provide air connectivity to tier-II cities with metros, since most of the slots for the direct flights were full, these flights would provide better connectivity to both the metros and the tier-II cities," Jadhav said.
18/04/11 PTI/Economic Times
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