THE Badals’ bastion — is now connected by air with capital Delhi as Air India commenced its Delhi-Bathinda flight on Sunday. Bathinda MP and Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal along with Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju landed at the Bathinda domestic airport from Delhi. Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal welcomed them and termed Bathinda airport as “a historic step which will boost the employment avenues in Malwa region”.
Harsimrat Badal said this “domestic airport will transform Bathinda into an industry and trade hub”. Air India’s 70- seater ATR-72 aircraft will operate thrice a week (Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) with ticket priced at Rs 2,500. However, the state’s largest and already existing industrial hub — Ludhiana — has been demanding air connectivity with Delhi and a decent domestic airport for decades now.
To add to its woes, the recently introduced Ludhiana-Delhi flight (on September 1) by private operator Jetsmart has been temporarily suspended, too. Launched with much fanfare on September 1, Jetsmart started its eight-seater luxury aircraft — Beech B200 King Air — from Sahnewal airport of Ludhiana with tickets priced from Rs 10,000-13,000.
Angad Dhaliwal, business development head, Jetsmart, confirmed to The Indian Express that the company has ‘temporarily suspended’ the flights within three months of the launch. He, however, blamed the weather for it. “It is just temporary suspension due to fog and weather issues. We will start flights again but it is not yet decided when operations will resume,” said Dhaliwal. Following discontinued air connectivity since 1999, former Congress MP Manish Tewari, on demand of industrialists from Ludhiana, had resumed Ludhiana-Delhi flights from Sahnewal in 2010.
12/12/16 Divya Goyal/The Indian Express
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Harsimrat Badal said this “domestic airport will transform Bathinda into an industry and trade hub”. Air India’s 70- seater ATR-72 aircraft will operate thrice a week (Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) with ticket priced at Rs 2,500. However, the state’s largest and already existing industrial hub — Ludhiana — has been demanding air connectivity with Delhi and a decent domestic airport for decades now.
To add to its woes, the recently introduced Ludhiana-Delhi flight (on September 1) by private operator Jetsmart has been temporarily suspended, too. Launched with much fanfare on September 1, Jetsmart started its eight-seater luxury aircraft — Beech B200 King Air — from Sahnewal airport of Ludhiana with tickets priced from Rs 10,000-13,000.
Angad Dhaliwal, business development head, Jetsmart, confirmed to The Indian Express that the company has ‘temporarily suspended’ the flights within three months of the launch. He, however, blamed the weather for it. “It is just temporary suspension due to fog and weather issues. We will start flights again but it is not yet decided when operations will resume,” said Dhaliwal. Following discontinued air connectivity since 1999, former Congress MP Manish Tewari, on demand of industrialists from Ludhiana, had resumed Ludhiana-Delhi flights from Sahnewal in 2010.
12/12/16 Divya Goyal/The Indian Express
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