10 months on, no flight to Mysore

Bengaluru: What’s wrong with the Mysore airport? It is still waiting for the resumption of commercial flight operations for the last 10 months after Kingfisher Airlines suspended its lone flight in November last year. Is it the lack of political will or the airlines’ susceptibility to industry slowdown and ever increasing Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices that are keeping flights away from Mysore? This is the question every Mysorean and tourist of heritage city is asking in disgust.
Now, there is more bad news. The two potential operators, Spice Jet and Jet Airways, who had expressed interest to start flight services from Mysore in the recent past, have backed off and confirmed that Mysore will not find place in their winter flight schedule. The Spice Jet, which has already announced its schedule, has preferred Hubli over Mysore. It is operating a night flight from Hubli to Bengaluru from September 27 to October 27 and has already started the bookings. Mr. Ajith Madhavan, sales manager, Karnataka (Trade), Spice Jet, told Deccan Chronicle that the Mysore airport is not considered as a preferred destination currently. “We are not rescheduling our flight via Mysore. I can’t elaborate the reasons for the reluctance. Moreover, there is no proposal in front of us.”
18/09/12 S.V. Krishna Chaitanya/Deccan Chronicle

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Categories: airports Sep 2012