Kanpur-Ahemdabad flights now on all 7 days of week

Kanpur: People of Kanpur can now fly to Ahmedabad all seven days of the week while for Mumbai they will get flight four days of the week.
The flights, which are rescheduled have been confirmed by the aviation authorities. According to B K Jha, Chakeri airport director directorate of aviation has given green signal for Mumbai and Ahmedabad flights. Ahmedabad flight will be a daily affair. Earlier it was scheduled to be six days a week.
Jha informed that Mumbai flight will land at Chakeri airport on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. There is no change in fly backtime schedule. Ahemdabad flight will reach Chakeri at 10 am and will again fly back after 20 minutes.
Similarly, Mumbai flight will land in Kanpur at 3.30 pm and after a 50 minutes will fly back at 4.20 pm. Airport director informed that flights for Bangalore and Kolkata would also resume. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had sought information for those two flights. Airport authority had provided the required information to DGCA. Jha informed that DGCA was exploring possibilities for air connectivity of Kanpur with other cities.
Flights for two cities had taken place but the operator had closed the services when passengers’ response was lukewarm.DGCA had once again started exercise to restore those routes and for that it had asked the suggestions from the airport director. Jha informed that route had been fixed for last two years.If any flight operator was interested then it should contact DGCA and seek permission for flight operation.
Jha stated that at present chakeri airport had just one runway, which is short and part of air force runway. Therefore small planes had been permitted to land in Kanpur. Construction of second runway had begun and it was likely to be ready in around four months.Once second runway would be ready then big planes too could land here, he added.