The GoAir, a low-fare airline, launched its daily flights from the Biju Patnaik domestic airport here on Sunday.
The GoAir’s maiden flight from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi took off at 8.45 am while its second flight for New Delhi is scheduled to depart from here at 7.25 pm to reach its destination at 9.50 pm.
While another flight of the company left for Mumbai at 11 am from here, one more flight of the airline departed for Kolkata at 6.30 pm on Sunday.
The airline’s operation was formally inaugurated by Bhubaneswar Airport Director Sharad Kumar. Kumar said that with the launching of the GoAir’s operations, the domestic flight operations at the Bhubaneswar Airport have increased to 40 flights daily which include up and down flights.
At present, the Indigo has 22 flights and Air India and Alliance Air combined have 10 flights; and now there will be eight flights by the GoAir.
“As per domestic standards, the number of operations from the airport is good,” said Sharad Kumar.