Chennai: After going international with its first flight taking off to Jaffna from Chennai on Thursday, state-owned regional airline, Alliance Air, has drawn an elaborate plan to launch more international flights to neighbouring countries like Nepal and Bangladesh from Indian cities.
The first international flight, ATR 72-600, took off from Chennai at 8.45 am on Thursday to Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil-dominated northern province in Sri Lanka, re-establishing the old air links between the two close neighbours. Alliance Air will be the first international airline to land at the Jaffna International Airport, which is being inaugurated on Thursday. Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, connects 54 cities, most of which are new airports that became operational after the government’s ambitious UDAN scheme came into effects in the country and plans to launch flights to Chittagong and Kathmandu in the next few months.
“Since we have gone international now, we are looking at connecting cities of neighbouring countries from Kolkata, Varanasi and Guwahati. We plan to launch a few services within this year,” Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani told a select group of journalists here.
17/10/19 ETB Sivapriyan/Deccan Herald
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The first international flight, ATR 72-600, took off from Chennai at 8.45 am on Thursday to Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil-dominated northern province in Sri Lanka, re-establishing the old air links between the two close neighbours. Alliance Air will be the first international airline to land at the Jaffna International Airport, which is being inaugurated on Thursday. Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, connects 54 cities, most of which are new airports that became operational after the government’s ambitious UDAN scheme came into effects in the country and plans to launch flights to Chittagong and Kathmandu in the next few months.
“Since we have gone international now, we are looking at connecting cities of neighbouring countries from Kolkata, Varanasi and Guwahati. We plan to launch a few services within this year,” Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani told a select group of journalists here.
17/10/19 ETB Sivapriyan/Deccan Herald
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