Air India would launch a Rainbow Flight connecting five States including West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi in its vigorous drive to provide more connectivity to its passengers.
This initiative of the Air India would provide an unmatched linkage between Eastern, Central and Northern India with one aircraft. The cities covered in this flight would be Delhi, Jaipur, Indore, Raipur and Kolkata. All these five cities would be connected by a 70 seater aircraft and would not only promote tourism amongst the five states but would also provide convenient connections to the students as well as professionals working in the IT, Industrial and defense sectors.
Air India Area Manager Vishrut Acharya in a statement here on Monday informed that the flight would take off from Delhi at 6.00 hours and would land Jaipur at 7.00 hours from where it would take off at 7.30 hours for Indore and would land at 9.00 from Indore the flight would take off for Raipur at 9.30 hours where it would land at 11.00 hours and from Raipur it would take off at 11.30 hours to reach Kolkata at 1400 hours.
This flight would be available thrice a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
While, in its return journey the flight would start from Kolkata and would take off at 6.00 hours for Raipur where it would reach at 8.30 hours and from Raipur it would take off at 9.00 hours for Indore where it would land at 10.30 hours from Indore it would take off at 11.00 hours for Jaipur where it wood land at 12.30 hours and from Jaipur it would take off for Delhi at 13 hours and would land at 1400 hours. This flight too would be available trice a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
However, the date of commencement of this flight would be announced soon, said Acharya.