Saturday, January 18, 2020

Operational charges waived for commercial flights at Ozar airport

Nashik: The defence PSU, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), has started waiving off operational charges for all civilian flights using the Ozar airport near Nashik city under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS).
The instructions for the same were issued by the ministry of defence (MoD). Moreover, HAL has also started providing night landing facility to all commercial flights and aircraft at the Ozar airport if they inform HAL about the same at least 10 hours prior to the landing.

HAL sources said that the MoD recently issued instructions to the company to waive off operational charges at the airport including landing and parking fees for all flights operating to and from Nashik Airport under the Centre’s Udan or RCS scheme.

The ministry also asked the airlines to rope in more flights for Nashik. At present, Nashik airport facilitates air connectivity to Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad.

Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, is operating from Nashik to Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune. In addition, private airline TruJet is also operating on the Nashik-Ahmedabad route on a daily basis.

“Following the instructions from the union ministry of defence, we have waived all operational charges at the airport for the flights operating under the RCS. The ministry had recently issued such circular directing us waive of all the charges,” said HAL sources.

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had also given its approval to the night landing for passenger aircraft at the Ozar airport.

“Earlier, we would provide services at the airport till 7 pm. But, after the DGCA’s approval for landing for passenger aircraft, we have extended our service hours till midnight. The night landing facilities are also free for flights under the Udan scheme,” said HAL sources.
18/01/20 Tushar Pawar/Times of India
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