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Delhi-Bareilly flights to begin from March 8
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SME Times News Bureau | 23 Feb, 2021
The civil aviation sector of Uttar Pradesh is set to get more wings with
the commencement of flight operations from the newly constructed
Bareilly airport.
Under the Centre's flagship regional
connectivity scheme (RCS), flights are scheduled to be operated by
Alliance Air between Bareilly and Delhi from March 8, every Wednesday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The airline will also begin two flights from Prayagraj connecting Delhi and Bilaspur, from March 1 under RCS.
The flights would operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. In both cases, the airline would be using ATR 72 aircraft.
Bareilly
would be the eighth airport in the state to get functional after the
ones in Lucknow, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Hindon, Agra and
Prayagraj.
Civil Aviation Secretary Surendra Singh said the state
government has spent around Rs 83 crore on construction of a civil
enclave in Bareilly. This is apart from the around 35 acres of land
which has been made available to Airports Authority of India (AAI) free
of cost and Rs 9.8 crore for ensuring dedicated power supply, he said.
Sources
in the civil aviation department said that IndiGo Airlines has also
sent a team to Bareilly to conduct an assessment to operate flights.
"The area is largely unserved despite having many tourist places nearby," a senior official in the department said.
The area also has several industrialists who seek flights to reach business centres like Delhi and Mumbai.
Sources
said that the demand for these facilities had been pending for long but
neither the district administration nor the previous state governments
had paid heed.
Since air connectivity is being provided under
RCS, the state government would give a number of sops to the airline
including viability gap funding, free electricity up to 4,000 units,
waiver on VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) for 10 years and security
and fire services.
The state government would also provide road connectivity, bus services and ambulance services.
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