Inaugural flight of FlyBig lands at Raipur Airport
Inaugural flight of FlyBig, India’s latest pleasant regional airline, which gives connectivity to locations that have been hitherto not accessible by air, landed on the tarmac of Swami Vivekananda Airport (SVA) at 2.50 pm on Wednesday. The inaugural flight (S9101), ATR 72 plane, arrived Raipur from Indore acquired a grand water cannon salute within the presence of Airports Authority of India (AAI) officers manning the airport. Moreover, the passengers of inaugural flight have been personally acquired by Airport Director Rakesh Ranjan Sahay, FlyBig Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Captain Srinivas Rao and Managing Director Sanjay Mandaviya.
In all, in accordance with the AAI sources, the inaugural flight (S9101), ATR 72 plane, arrived right here with 42 passengers whereas the return flight (S9102) departed from right here with 48 passengers. “FlyBig plans to operation Indore-Raipur-Indore sector 5 times a week viz. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, wherein, it will arrive at 7:30 A.M. in the morning from Indore and will depart at 8 am for Indore, ”the sources added. MLA Kuldeep Juneja and workplace bearers of Confederation of India Industries (CII) specifically Amit Agrawal, Sandeep Goel and Satish Pandey. In the meantime, sources additionally affirmed that the main focus of FlyBig and AAI is to develop smaller airports by boosting regional air companies by way of such companies.
“Depending on the response, the private airlines, in conjunction with the UDDAN initiative, may also add more destinations in its operations list,” the maintained. It is pertinent right here to recall that the non-public airline had acquired Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a regulatory physique within the area of civil aviation, primarily coping with issues of safety, on December 14, 2020 Hereafter, FlyBig Airlines’ CEO Captain Srinivas Rao on January 6 had additionally visited Raipur and reviewed the set-up at SVA together with APD Rakesh Ranjan Sahay for Raipur-Indore flight companies, which lastly commenced on Wednesday.