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  • Mangaraj calls for flight providers from Jeypore and Utkela airports

    By Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: Rajya Sabha member Manas Mangaraj on Wednesday demanded early completion of Jeypore (Koraput) and Utkela (Kalahandi) airports that can facilitate air connectivity within the Maoist-infested areas.

    Raising the difficulty by means of a particular point out within the Upper House of the Parliament, Mangaraj stated the airports will profit folks within the area in addition to these staying exterior, because the areas are linked to enterprise and industrial hubs.

    Five airports had been taken up within the State for improvement underneath the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik), a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 2016, however solely Jharsuguda has been operationalised to date.

    “Though the works at Jeypore and Utkela airstrips began in 2020 after a long delay, flight services are yet to start. The Central teams are visiting the airstrips and making promises for early services, but there is no specific announcement so far,” he identified.

    The State authorities had undertaken the event of Jeypore and Utkela airports with the technical help of AAI. It had supplied 118.5 acre of land and Rs 75 crore for Jharsuguda airport.

    BHUBANESWAR: Rajya Sabha member Manas Mangaraj on Wednesday demanded early completion of Jeypore (Koraput) and Utkela (Kalahandi) airports that can facilitate air connectivity within the Maoist-infested areas.

    Raising the difficulty by means of a particular point out within the Upper House of the Parliament, Mangaraj stated the airports will profit folks within the area in addition to these staying exterior, because the areas are linked to enterprise and industrial hubs.

    Five airports had been taken up within the State for improvement underneath the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik), a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 2016, however solely Jharsuguda has been operationalised to date.

    “Though the works at Jeypore and Utkela airstrips began in 2020 after a long delay, flight services are yet to start. The Central teams are visiting the airstrips and making promises for early services, but there is no specific announcement so far,” he identified.

    The State authorities had undertaken the event of Jeypore and Utkela airports with the technical help of AAI. It had supplied 118.5 acre of land and Rs 75 crore for Jharsuguda airport.

  • CEO of FlyBig Airlines visits SVA, Raipur

    FlyBig Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Captain Srinivas Rao on Wednesday visited the Swami Vivekananda Airport (SVA), Raipur to scrutinise the arrange for Raipur-Indore flight companies. SVA Director Rakesh Ranjan Sahay greeted the FlyBig Airlines CEO Captain Srinivas Rao on the Airport. Very quickly, Raipur could have direct connectivity to the industrial hub of Madhya Pradesh, Indore. The new flights of FlyBig Airlines will come as an enormous increase to the connectivity between two essential industrial cities of the Central India. SVA Director Rakesh Ranjan Sahay mentioned that FlyBig Airlines will begin operation from SVA on January 13. CEO Rao visited Raipur to examine up their arrange in order the launch of their flights may very well be clean.

    With ATR kind plane, they wish to make a community of all regional airports and join them corresponding to to spice up connectivity between Raipur/Jabalpur/Bhopal/Indore. In the preliminary part of the operation, FlyBig will start flights from Raipur to Indore and subsequently, the Airlines will arrange connectivity between all of the airports, SVA Director added. It’s essential to recall right here that FlyBig was granted with Air Operator’s Certificate by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in December, 2020.

    “FlyBig, a private regional carrier on December 14, received AOC from DGCA even as the Airports Authority of India (AAI) manning the Swami Vivekananda Airport (SVA) here has approved the flight operations schedule submitted to them by the airlines,” Airport Director (APD) Rakesh Ranjan Sahay had advised to The Hitavada.