No private airlines to take off in Karnataka

Bangalore: While the Karnataka Government is busy trying to either expand airports or build new ones by acquiring hundreds of acres of land, there has been no offers from private airline operators to render their services on these routes.
The latest of these expansions are taking place in Hubli airport, where 400 acres has been handed over to Airports Authority of India (AAI). But in reality only Kingfisher Airlines operates two flights on this route.
Speaking to Express from Dharwad, Prahalad Joshi, MP, said that though it was a profitable route, only one airline operates there. The company maintained that they would not cancel ‘profit-making’ routes, even though reports of cancellations indicated otherwise.
“I am in constant touch with other airline operators. But there seems to be some delay,” Joshi added.
Rajkumar Khatri, principal secretary (Infrastructure), Government of Karnataka, said that only economic development would lure these operators.
13/02/12 New Indian Express/IBN Live

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Categories: airports Feb 2012, Indian Aviation- In General Feb 2012