Recently, the Ministry of Civil Aviation commenced the flight operations on the Keshod-Mumbai air route underneath the Regional Connectivity Scheme- UDAN. The airline- Alliance Air was awarded the route underneath the bidding means of UDAN RCS-4.1. With this, as many as 417 routes can be operationalized underneath the UDAN scheme. The airline on this route will fly on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday and can deploy its ATR 72-600 plane, which is a 70- seater turbo prop plane, designed for shorter-distance flights. Also, with this, Alliance Air will change into the primary airline to attach Keshod in Gujarat to Mumbai, Maharashtra underneath the UDAN scheme.
According to the Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, two well-known world-famous vacationer attractions- Somnath Temple and Gir National Park are located close to Keshod. Now vacationers will be capable to simply go to each the locations. Besides, varied industries are established in Keshod like textile, furnishings, cement, chemical compounds, and so on. which will even be benefitted from the graduation of the brand new route. The minister additionally mentioned his ministry will even join Keshod with Ahmedabad. In this yr’s summer time schedule, town of Ahmedabad has been related to Agra, Amritsar, and Ranchi.
Similarly, the cities of Porbandar and Rajkot have been linked with Mumbai. Also, two new greenfield airports will probably be constructed in Hirasar and Dholera which can have 23 lakh and 30 lakh passengers per yr with a finances allocation of Rs 1405 crore and Rs 1305 crore respectively. Moreover, a particular air route linking Porbandar and the nationwide capital will begin on 27 April, knowledgeable the minister. It used to take about 16 hours to journey by highway from Keshod to Mumbai, however now, the journey time bought lowered to simply 1 hour 25 minutes with the graduation of the brand new flight. The ATR-72 600 will depart from Mumbai at 12:00 PM and arrive Keshod at 1:25 PM and the flight will depart from Keshod at 1:50 PM and arrive Mumbai at 3:10 PM.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”