Regular flight service at the Veer Surendra Sai Airport here would resume from March 31, informed airport director SK Chouhan on Saturday.
The low-cost carrier SpiceJet would start flights at the airport to Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad. For this, an eight-member team of the SpiceJet today conducted an inspection of the security and infrastructure facilities at the airport on the day.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has called for a fresh bidding for four routes in Odisha under the third phase of the UDAN scheme. The routes are Jharsuguda-Ranchi, Bhubaneswar-Utkela, Utkela-Raipur and Jeypore-Bhubaneswar.
Notably, flight operations at the Jharsuguda airport were stopped around 15 days after its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 22 last year as the Air Odisha airline suspended its services. The Air Odisha had bagged the permission to operate flights from Jharsuguda to Bhubaneswar, Ranchi and Raipur under the UDAN scheme.