Puducherry: The Puducherry airport will go on stream from October 10 with the Spice Jet Airlines operating an ATR flight to Bangalore, Welfare and Tourism Minister P Rajavelu told the territorial assembly today.
The Airlines had obtained clearance from the Civil Aviation Ministry to operate the flight, he said in response to a query by P.Karthikeyan (AINRC).
Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfishers had also informed that they would depute their technical team to study feasibility of operating flights from Puducherry to other destinations.
Giving details of the progress of work in the airport at Lawspet near here, he said a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Puducherry Administration and Airports Authority of India in June 2007 for expansion of the airport in two phases. Under Phase-I, extension of existing runway by 260 metres was taken up to enable landing of ATR type of aircraft along with ground support facilities.
03/09/11 Economic Times
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