Flights from Jharsuguda to Bhubaneswar will not take place for three months at least.
As informed by Jharsuguda VSS Airport Station Manager Abhijit Satpathy, the flights provided by Alliance Air between Jharsuguda-Bhubaneswar-Varanasi-Bhubaneswar-Jharsuguda will remain suspended from March 29 till June 30.
He further said that due to implementation of NOTAM (Aeronautical, facilitation, Service, Information for change in flight schedule) in Bhubaneswar Airport, these flights have been cancelled. However, from July 1, as per the earlier time schedule, Alliance Air flight will fly from Kolkata at 05.50 am to reach Jharsuguda at 07.20am.
The flight will again leave Jharsuguda Airport at 07.45 am and reach Raipur at 08.50 am. Again from Raipur, it will leave at 09.15 am and reach Jharsuguda at 10.20 am. Thereafter, it will leave Jharsuguda at 10.45 am to reach Bhubaneswar at 11.50 am. Likewise, from Bhubaneswar it will leave at 12.15 pm and reach Varanasi at 2.05 in the afternoon. From Varanasi airport, it will leave at 02.30 pm and after landing at Bhubaneswar at 04.20 pm the flight will move at 04.45 pm for Jharsuguda and reach there at 05.50 pm. The same flight will leave Jharsuguda Airport at 06.15 pm in the evening and reach Kolkata at 7.45 pm.
The passengers will be facing difficulties due to suspension of flight service from Jharsuguda to Bhubaneswar. They will depend upon bus and train service, which will be quite time consuming, passengers said.