Air services to Jamshedpur resume from Feb 15

Kolkata: With the Northeast Shuttles announcing regular flights between Kolkata and Jamshedpur from February 15, the steel city made will make a comeback into the aviation map with non-scheduled operator on Wednesday. In the past five years, the sector has experienced a lot of turbulence with Air Deccan, Kingfisher, MDLR and Deccan Charters pulling out of services due to various reasons recording despite good loads.
"The day after Valentine's, we will start six days-a-week charter flights between Kolkata and Jamshedpur. After a fortnight, we will increase operations to twice daily flights, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon," Northeast Shuttles managing director Shoba Mani said on Monday.
Though schedules were not published, the operator is not allowed to publish schedules. The Dornier 228 took off at 9am and returned around 10.30am on Wednesday, sources said. The flight time to Jamshedpur is 35 minutes; the turnover time 15 minutes. The afternoon flight is likely to took off around 3pm.
17/02/12 Times of India

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