Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia flagging off the UDAN flight at Indore today
Indore: Gondia made its maiden appearance on India’s air route after the daily flight between the Indore-Gondia-Hyderabad route under RCS-UDAN scheme was flagged-off today. With this, the aircraft operation from Indore too doubled in one year, while Gondia becomes the 14th UDAN destination.
Fly Big was awarded the route under the UDAN RCS-4.0 bidding process and it became the first airline to connect Gondia with a scheduled commercial flight to other metro cities. The airline will operate one daily flight every day and will deploy its ATR 72, 78-seater turboprop aircraft designed for shorter-distance flights on the route.
Birsi airport in Gondia was established as a domestic airport which is owned and operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and is located at Birsi Village, 12 km northeast of Gondia, Maharashtra. The Ministry of Civil Aviation invested Rs 21 crore in the airport for re-carpeting of the runway, procurement of Aircraft Crash Fire Tenders (ACFTs) and other equipment to operationalise the airport.
Today’s inaugural event was attended by Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister (virtually) Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Sumitra Mahajan, Former Speaker, Lok Sabha, among others.
The Flight schedule is as below
– global bihari bureau
