New Delhi:
Hindon, which has develop into the second airport to perform from the Nationwide Capital Area, will vault into the large league with the initiation of each day flights to and from Kolkata. At the moment small airways function on quick routes from Hindon. However Air India Specific — a subsidiary of Air India and part of the Tata Group – would be the first airline to function out of Hindon airport with a jet engine airliner, a spokesperson of the corporate stated.
The Kolkata-Hindon flights will start from March 1. The flight will function each day, whereas the return flights will function six days per week. There will probably be no flight on Saturdays.
The flights will take off at 7.10 am from Kolkata and attain Hindon at 9.30 am. The return flights will depart Hindon at 5.20 pm and attain the japanese metropolis at 7.40 pm.
With this enlargement, Air India Specific will function from two airports within the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR) – Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport in Delhi and Hindon Airport in Ghaziabad, the spokesperson stated.
The civil terminal at Hindon was opened initially to accommodate the federal government’s Regional Connectivity Scheme. However there have been no takers and the airport needed to be shut down for about eight months.
Air site visitors management in Hindon is being supplied by the Indian Air Power. Its Civil Enclave was developed and managed by AAI, which additionally caters to VIP and non-scheduled flights.
The airport is predicted to offer a handy various for travellers from east and central Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad.
Apart from Kolkata, the airline additionally plans to attach Goa and Bengaluru to Hindon with six each day flights from every metropolis.
The Kolkata-Hindon flights had been anticipated to begin from August final 12 months however had been postponed.
“We hook up with 14 direct locations from Kolkata together with Hindon. A few of the key locations are Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Guwahati and Hyderabad,” the spokesperson stated.
(With PTI inputs)