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Maritime Energy Heli Air, which pioneered the launch of seaplane services last year, will commence its operations in Maharashtra and Kerala next month.
Mehair pioneered the launch of the country’s first seaplane operation in the Andaman Nicobar Islands in January 2011. A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
The company has said that it has got the go-ahead from Maharashtra’s costal zone management authority to begin seaplane services from the city and would start operations from next month.
“We will soon officially sign an agreement with the Kerala Tourism Corporation. We plan to start operations in Kerala and Maharashtra simultaneously, may be by the end of December,” Mehair chief executive Siddharth Verma told PTI.
Mehair had signed an agreement with Maharashtra last year and has been waiting for regulatory clearances and still needs a green signal from the Navy to go ahead.
The city-based company has also entered into agreements with Goa and Andhra to launch similar services.
“There are a number of water bodies, apart from the sea, like the lakes, backwaters and dams, on which seaplanes can land and which allow easy access to numerous tourist spots,” he said without indicating when the operations will begin in these States.
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