Capital city Raipur will get air connectivity with north-east from July 20 as Indigo has announced a new flight service from Raipur to Meghalaya’s capital Shillong via Kolkata. It has issued the flight schedule for the same.
As per the schedule ATR plane from Raipur will commence flight at 12.00 PM and reach Kolkata at 2.25 PMThe flight will resume at 2.45 PM and reach Shillong by 4.25 PM. Similarly, from Shillong it would fly to Kolkata and reach Raipur Airport by 8.55 PM. As there was no direct flight to north-east from Raipur, the travelers had to reach New Delhi and then take flight to Guwahati and then to Shillong.
The booking would soon commence for the flight. It is hoped that tourists will be taking benefit of this service after the direct link.