Ranchi: Indigo leading domestic carrier on Saturday started the first direct flight to connect Ranchi with Pune.
Flight, 6E-113, is scheduled for every day from Ranchi at 2pm, while it will start from Pune at 10:55 a.m.
With the addition of this new flight, Birsa Munda International Airport will now have 28 flights every day in the post-covid period.
The airport authority said the girl flight (6E-112) departed from Lohegaon International Airport (Pune) and arrived here around 1:20 a.m.
with more than 140 passengers.
Flights again reached Pune at 4:30 p.m.
Speaking with Toi, Director of International Airport Birsa Munda Vinod Kumar Sharma said, “Our airport is connected to Pune with direct flight services operated by Indigo and the first flight arrived today with 143 passengers at 1:20 p.m.
Passengers are on a plane that is bound by Pune.
“In total flights operating from city airports, Sharma said,” At present, we operate 20 flights every day after relaxation of Covid-19.
However, with the addition of planes Pune, the total number of flights increased to 28 .
“Meanwhile, students and people who work in the IT sector in Pune from Jharkhand are very happy after flight operations begins.
Many of them said they would help them save time because they had previously taken a liaison flight to Pune through Mumbai or Bangalore with a long stop.
Some of them also said it would also reduce their expenses because the carrying aviation tariff was always higher than direct flights.
Nithish Kishore, a resident of Argora who worked as a manager with an English-based MNC in Pune, “before, I have to take a flight that connects from Mumbai or from Bangalore to reach Pune that I have to spend more than 14 hours.
With direct flights, me Can travel to Pune within three hours and it will help me save a lot of time.
“Vidisha Mishra, a medical student at Dy Patil Medical College in Pune,” with direct flights, the house seems closer than before.
It will be cheaper and Not tiring too.
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