Alliance Air to start flights from Dibrugarh to five Arunachal towns

Dibrugarh:

Alliance Air

Aviation Limited is going to introduce fixed-wing flight services from

Dibrugarh

to Pasighat, Tezu,

Ziro

, Mechuka and

Tuting

in Arunachal Pradesh. The airlines has planned an inaugural flight in the Dibrugarh-Lilabari-Pasighat-Guwahati sector on April 12. Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu are going to be on board the inaugural Dornier 228 flight (DO228) planned on April 12 from Dibrugarh. Narsing Rao Meesala, station manager, Alliance Air, Dibrugarh, on Monday said in the first phase, services will be started between Dibrugarh-Pasighat, Dibrugarh-Tezu and Dibrugarh-Ziro. Depending upon the availability of aircraft, services between Dibrugarh-Tuting, Dibrugarh- Mechuka will be started soon, he added. HAL has signed an agreement with Alliance Air to lease out two ‘made in India’ Dornier DO-228, a 17-seater aircraft, for operation in Arunachal.