Ghaziabad: Operational problems and a fleet of grounded aircraft triggered by the meltdown of Jet Airways is affecting plans to open the new commercial terminal of the Hindon air force base, Ghaziabad’s district magistrate has said.
The terminal, inaugurated by the Prime Minister in March this year, will act as the second airport in NCR till IGI is revamped and will operate flights under the government’s UDAN scheme. But the expected launch of commercial operations has been deferred to August instead of July that was announced earlier.
“We recently held talks with Airports Authority of India (AAI) in which it was conveyed to us that domestic flight operations from Hindon IAF base will start in the first week of August,” said Ritu Maheshwari, the DM. “The AAI had earlier said operations may start in July but due to flight loss involving Jet Airways and due to other operational hiccups, deadline has been extended by a month now,” she said.
Maheshwari said the first flight is likely to connect Ghaziabad with Karnataka. “The AAI has said that the Hindon-Hubli (Karnataka) segment may start from August 5,” she said. On including Lucknow in the list of cities where domestic flights from Hindon will fly to, Maheshwari added, “The AAI has given in-principle approval for operating a flight between Ghaziabad and Lucknow. We have been told IndiGo has shown willingness to operate a flight on the segment.”
Flights from Hindon are scheduled to fly to and from eight cities — Hubli, Jamnagar, Faizabad, Pithoragarh, Shimla, Kalburgi, Kannur and Nashik —under the government’s subsidised regional air connectivity scheme.
26/06/19 Abhijay Jha/Times of India
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The terminal, inaugurated by the Prime Minister in March this year, will act as the second airport in NCR till IGI is revamped and will operate flights under the government’s UDAN scheme. But the expected launch of commercial operations has been deferred to August instead of July that was announced earlier.
“We recently held talks with Airports Authority of India (AAI) in which it was conveyed to us that domestic flight operations from Hindon IAF base will start in the first week of August,” said Ritu Maheshwari, the DM. “The AAI had earlier said operations may start in July but due to flight loss involving Jet Airways and due to other operational hiccups, deadline has been extended by a month now,” she said.
Maheshwari said the first flight is likely to connect Ghaziabad with Karnataka. “The AAI has said that the Hindon-Hubli (Karnataka) segment may start from August 5,” she said. On including Lucknow in the list of cities where domestic flights from Hindon will fly to, Maheshwari added, “The AAI has given in-principle approval for operating a flight between Ghaziabad and Lucknow. We have been told IndiGo has shown willingness to operate a flight on the segment.”
Flights from Hindon are scheduled to fly to and from eight cities — Hubli, Jamnagar, Faizabad, Pithoragarh, Shimla, Kalburgi, Kannur and Nashik —under the government’s subsidised regional air connectivity scheme.
26/06/19 Abhijay Jha/Times of India
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