Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal, Low-Fare Airlines Spice Jet has started its base station once again in Bhopal after 5 years. This time the company has also got the permission of night parking. After this problem of delay in morning flights will be solved. Now, Jaipur and Hyderabad flights will be parked at night at Raja Bhoj Airport.
The company started its base station on Sunday with Shirdi, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bengaluru flights. MP Alok Sanjar, MLA Rameshwar Sharma, airport director Anil Vikram, deputy general manager of the airport authority Rakesh Baheri and Deputy Commander Virender Singh welcomed the new flights with the ritual of flag off.
On this occasion, the company’s regional manager Naval Kishore and airport manager VJ Arvind were also present. The passengers who were going to Shirdi were welcomed. Pilot of Shirdi flight is Arunendra Patel who belongs to Bhopal.
Now Focus on Dubai, Singapore
On this occasion MP Alok Sanjar said that now it can be believed that efforts made to increase air traffic from Bhopal have been successful. In the next phase, we will focus on starting flights to Dubai and Singapore from Bhopal. Efforts will also be made to start flights to Poona, Lucknow and Kolkata.
Q-400 Bombardier Aircraft to fly
Spice Jet has decided to run 78-seat Q-400 Bombardier aircraft from Bhopal to all the cities. Typically, airlines operate a 72-seat ATR aircraft on low-seat routes. The Q-Bombardier aircraft is counted in the middle class comfortable aircrafts. The cruise speed of the aircraft is 666 kilometers per hour. Having more speed in it than ATR saves time.
More travelers than expected
On the first day we got more travelers than expected from Bhopal to Jaipur, Shirdi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. We are getting good bookings in for Ahmadabad flight also.
-VJ Arvind, Airport Manager Spice Jet
Jet’s Mumbai flight is now Direct, Incoming facility from Raipur closed
The Evening flight of Jet Airways will now reach Bhopal directly. So far this flight came to Bhopal from Mumbai via Raipur. For the convenience of passengers and expected booking of Mumbai-Bhopal, company has made this flight direct to Bhopal. This decision has stopped the flight of incoming flights from Raipur. Airport manager Malay Jain says that the time will be saved of those who visit Bhopal. Flight for Raipur is also considered to restart in future. Only one flight from Bhopal to Raipur will be available with Air India’s subsidiary Alliance Air.