Airstrip sans commercial flights

Bokaro: The town has an airport but the residents here feel it is unfortunate that there is no commercial flight. This 40-year-old city has grown up to be one of the most prosperous towns of the state, but it does not have a presence in the air map of the country.
The residents are demanding commercial flights from the city now. In view of the demand, two airlines - Air Deccan and Spirit Airways - had once announced launching its commercial flights in December 2010 and August 2011, respectively. But the plan never took off.
The officials of these companies had visited the city and surveyed the market potential, customer base and assessed the airstrip, situated on National Highway-23 (Bokaro-Chas road). They all found it to be fit to run small or medium size planes. "But commercial flights never took off from here because of lack of understanding between the BSL, which owns the airport, and the airline companies," a source said.
11/07/12 Divya Khare/Times of India

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Categories: airports Jul 2012