Saturday, October 26, 2019

Push for more flights from Hindon base

Ghaziabad: After Pithoragarh, flight service to Hubli in Karnataka from the Hindon civil airport will start from November 6.

Star Air, the commercial airline, will fly a 50-seater ERJ-145 plane thrice a week between Hindon and Hubli. According to airline officials, the plane will land in Ghaziabad from Hubli at 3.40 pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays and depart for Hubli at 4.10 pm.
On Saturday, it will take off from the Hindon airbase at 3 pm. The duration of the flight will be 2 hours 40 minutes.

During a meeting on Friday, Star Air manager Kiran ST told the district magistrate the company was getting good response and almost 90% of seats on the Hindon-Hubli flight had been booked. At present, there is no direct flight to Hubli and passengers either have to take a flight to Goa or Bengaluru to reach there.

Besides reviewing arrangements for the upcoming flight service, district magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey held a meeting with AAI’s Hindon airport director, Shobha Bhardwaj, and Star Air manager Kiran to explore new cities to where the services can be launched from Hindon.

The DM said he had requested Star Air to look into the feasibility of starting services to Lucknow, Prayagraj and Varanasi.

Officials have assured a swift decision on this, he added.
26/10/19 Aditya Dev/Times of India
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