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Friday, Dec 24, 2004
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Airlines Air Deccan to connect smaller cities in North Our Bureau
New Delhi , Dec. 23 THE country's only low cost airline Air Deccan is set to start connecting the smaller cities in the North. On Thursday, the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, launched the Delhi-Dehra Dun flight. Addressing the media at the launch function the airline Managing Director, Captain G.R. Gopinath, said that Air Deccan planned to offer 18 flights a day in the northern region. "We will offer flights from Delhi to Jaipur, Amritsar, Kanpur, Dehra Dun, Jammu, Jabalpur and Chandigarh. Besides, we will also offer return flights to Agra," Captain Gopinath said. The airline is to offer new connections to various cities, including Kanpur, Agra, Jaipur, Dehra Dun and Amritsar from December 27, while flights to Bhopal, Chandigarh, Jammu and Jabalpur will start from January 10 next year, officials said. The airline already connects the smaller cities in southern and western parts of the country. Commenting on how the airline was performing, Captain Gopinath said that while the flights operated with the Airbus A-320 were reporting an average passenger loads of 95 per cent, the flights operated with the smaller ATR aircraft were reporting passenger loads of 85-90 per cent. The airline since its inception in August 2003 has carried 800,000 passengers covering 23 airports and operates 78 flights a day.
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