Surat: 'We Want Working Airport at Surat' (WWWAS) members have urged the state government to intervene with Air India and central government for providing daily Airbus operation between Surat and Delhi in the morning and introduction of two flights to Mumbai with easy connections to Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.
The 'WWWAS', a Facebook group having more than 57,000 members, submitted a memorandum to Gujarat's civil aviation minister Saurabh Patel during his visit to the airport here to flag off the Surat-Bhavnagar inaugural flight on Saturday.
The 'WWWAS' members said the Diamond City having a population of 50 lakh is the eighth largest city with an estimated GDP of $75 billion in the country. Still, the city has just two flights a day to New Delhi and three days a week flight to Mumbai. On the other hand, cities like Vadodara, Bhopal, Indore and Visakhapatnam having a population base between 13 lakh and 25 lakh are well-connected with domestic and international destinations.
26/06/16 Melvyn Reggie Thomas/Times of India
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The 'WWWAS', a Facebook group having more than 57,000 members, submitted a memorandum to Gujarat's civil aviation minister Saurabh Patel during his visit to the airport here to flag off the Surat-Bhavnagar inaugural flight on Saturday.
The 'WWWAS' members said the Diamond City having a population of 50 lakh is the eighth largest city with an estimated GDP of $75 billion in the country. Still, the city has just two flights a day to New Delhi and three days a week flight to Mumbai. On the other hand, cities like Vadodara, Bhopal, Indore and Visakhapatnam having a population base between 13 lakh and 25 lakh are well-connected with domestic and international destinations.
26/06/16 Melvyn Reggie Thomas/Times of India
