Andal (Durgapur): Zoom Air will begin commercial operations on the Delhi-Kolkata-Durgapur-Delhi sector from February 15 with plans to connect Mumbai and Hyderabad to the steel town later in April. The carrier is even contemplating a maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) base for regional jets at Andal by year-end. Zoom Air CEO & director Koustav Dhar, who flew to Andal in a pre-launch flight on Sunday , said the airport would become the airline mini-hub as it launches flights to multiple destinations from here. Zoom will operate all the flights with 50-seater Bombardier CR-J 200 aircraft. It is a full-service carrier that will serve complementary meals on board.
"As more aircraft is inducted into the fleet, we will gradually add flights to Andal and eventually have four-five flights a day . We see potential business as the entire belt up to Dhanbad has a number of public sector giants as well as private firms whose executives currently travel via Kolkata," said Dhar.
While Zoom is beginning operations with connections to Durgapur, Kolkata, Delhi, Chandigarh and Amritsar it plans to add flights to Surat, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Jabalpur, Shillong and Aizwal in the summer schedule and Tirupati, Vijaywada, Vizag, Aizwal, Pasighat, Zero, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Indore and Bhopal thereafter.
13/02/17 Times of India
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"As more aircraft is inducted into the fleet, we will gradually add flights to Andal and eventually have four-five flights a day . We see potential business as the entire belt up to Dhanbad has a number of public sector giants as well as private firms whose executives currently travel via Kolkata," said Dhar.
While Zoom is beginning operations with connections to Durgapur, Kolkata, Delhi, Chandigarh and Amritsar it plans to add flights to Surat, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Jabalpur, Shillong and Aizwal in the summer schedule and Tirupati, Vijaywada, Vizag, Aizwal, Pasighat, Zero, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Indore and Bhopal thereafter.
13/02/17 Times of India
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