Good News for air commuters to and from Bhubaneswar.National carrier Air India has decided to resume its Bhubaneswar-Chennai-Bhubaneswar flight, discontinued about four years ago, while leading low-cost airline IndiGo is all set to introduce three more flights from Bhubaneswar from March 30, informed sources
Restoration of the Chennai flight from the Biju Patnaik Airport here is part of thesummer schedule submitted by the Air India to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) recently.
Both the airlines have submitted summer schedule and will add more flights to New Delhi, Visakhapatnam and Bangalore from March-end, Bhubaneswar Airport Director Sharad Kumar said.
Notably, there had been widespread resentment in Odisha after the Air India decided to scrap its Bhubaneswar-Chennai services citing ‘poor traffic’ from the city. Presently, the Air India is operating three flights from Bhubaneswar, to New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Private carrier IndiGo, meanwhile, is planning to introduce flight services from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi, Bangalore and Vishakhapatnam from March 30.
With this, IndiGo will operate a total of 12 flights per day from the Biju Patnaik Airport. Currently, it is operating nine flights to New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Vishakhapatnam.
However, there will still be no direct flights from Bhubaneswar to Bangalore even after the introduction of the new services.