Aviation services launched between Chandigarh, Hisar

Hisar/Chandigarh: The Haryana government launched aviation services between Chandigarh and Hisar at Chandigarh International Airport on Thursday under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious regional airport development and regional connectivity ‘Udan’ scheme.

The four-seater air taxi reached Hisar at 3.10pm after taking off from Chandigarh at around 2.20pm.

Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar handed over a boarding pass to the first passenger of the air taxi, started by Air Taxi Aviation Company, in Chandigarh while Hisar MLA Kamal Gupta and deputy commissioner Priyanka Soni saw its arrival in Hisar. Captain Poonam and Captain Varun Suhag flew the air taxi while Deep Singh Bawa and Shubham Gaur were its first passengers.

The company has fixed a fare of Rs 1,755 from Hisar to Chandigarh. There will be a daily flight between at its scheduled time even if only one passenger has booked a ticket.

Gupta said the air taxi company would start services from Hisar to Dehradun from January 18 and from Hisar to Dharamshala on January 23. The flight booking will be available online at http://flyairtaxi.in, he said. However, when a TOI representative tried to book a flight from Hisar to Chandigarh for January 15 on the link given, the website stated, “We do not have any flights to match your search at the moment. Inconvenience regretted”.

Earlier, air shuttle service was started from Hisar to Chandigarh on September 3, 2019, before the assembly elections. However, ticket booking facilities were not started for several days and when they did, the flights were cancelled due to technical reasons.


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