Puducherry: Alliance Air, the lone flight operator at the Puducherry airport has suspended its services from October 15, just six months after it had begun.
Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, had been operating flights to and from Bengaluru on its 48-seater ATR 42-320 on all days of the week except Wednesdays. It had started its operations on April 14 this year. The last time the Puducherry airport was operational was when Spice Jet had flights to and from Bengaluru for just over a year, from January 2013 to January 2014.
For over a year, Puducherry had remained off the air connectivity map. In October, the Government had introduced a scheme of Viability Gap Funding under the umbrella of tourism promotional initiatives, wherein the Puducherry government offered Rs. 1,000 each for an aggregate of 200 seats on a daily basis, subject to a cap of 50 seats or a sum of Rs. 50,000 per fixed wing or rotary aircraft.
19/10/15 Annie Philip/The Hindu
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Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, had been operating flights to and from Bengaluru on its 48-seater ATR 42-320 on all days of the week except Wednesdays. It had started its operations on April 14 this year. The last time the Puducherry airport was operational was when Spice Jet had flights to and from Bengaluru for just over a year, from January 2013 to January 2014.
For over a year, Puducherry had remained off the air connectivity map. In October, the Government had introduced a scheme of Viability Gap Funding under the umbrella of tourism promotional initiatives, wherein the Puducherry government offered Rs. 1,000 each for an aggregate of 200 seats on a daily basis, subject to a cap of 50 seats or a sum of Rs. 50,000 per fixed wing or rotary aircraft.
19/10/15 Annie Philip/The Hindu
