Keshod: Ministry of Civil Aviation commenced the flight operations on the Keshod-Mumbai route under the RCS-UDAN scheme on April 16, 2022.
Alliance Air was awarded the route under the UDAN RCS-4.1 bidding process. With this, 417 routes would be operationalized under the UDAN-RCS scheme. The airline will operate thrice a week flights on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It will deploy its ATR 72-600, 70-seater turboprop aircraft designed for shorter-distance flights on the route. With this, Alliance Air will become the first airline to connect Keshod to Mumbai under UDAN.
Keshod Airport is owned by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Initially, the airport was refurbished and revived in late 1980s to facilitate scheduled operations. For the last 21 years, commercial aircraft have not landed at this airport.
AAI has invested an amount of Rs. 25 crores to upgrade Keshod airport for resurfacing of Runway, procurement of Aircraft Crash Fire Tender (ACFT), new Civil Enclave including Terminal Building, Apron for two ATR-72 types of aircraft and Link Taxiway, etc
The new UDAN flight route brings Keshod on the national air map and adds convenience and comfort to travellers of this region as Keshod is a tourist destination in the Junagarh district of Gujarat and is surrounded by the Arabian Sea and beautiful forests. Somnath Temple and Gir National Park are located near Keshod.
At present, it takes about 16 hours to travel by road from Keshod to Mumbai which will be reduced to just 1 hour 25 minutes with the commencement of the new flight.
The flight schedule is as below:
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