Now, fly to Delhi from Pathankot thrice a week
Friday, 06/04/2018
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PATHANKOT: Domestic flights resumed from Pathankot after a gap of around seven years, with an Alliance Air flight landing at the airport on Thursday.
The 70-seater airbus, which took off from Delhi at 10am, touched down at around 11am. The flight was received here by chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh. The flight will shuttle between Delhi and Pathankot thrice a week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. From Pathankot, it departed for Delhi at noon. The fare has been set at Rs 2,570 one way.
Built at a cost of ₹37 crore over 11 years ago, the Pathankot airport had domestic flight operations for around two-and-a-half years. Air Deccan ran its service, but suspended its operations due to poor occupancy of its flights.
Later, Air India also agreed to operate on this sector and started its flights in 2010. But it did not carry on for long. The airline halted its operations from the airport a year later in 2011, citing losses. And, there has not been any domestic flight since then.
