Ranchi: Flight operations on the Birsa Munda Worldwide Airport obtained a fillip with plane taking wing to a few new locations.
On Sunday, a direct service to Goa started whereas on Monday Ranchi will immediately get linked to temple city Deoghar. On Tuesday, a flight to Jaipur, Rajasthan has been scheduled, officers at Ranchi airport stated.

Whereas airport director Okay L Agarwal couldn’t be reached on cellphone, an airport official stated, “Goa, Deoghar and Jaipur are the brand new additions from Ranchi airport as a part of the summer time schedule. Indigo will function a flight to Goa on three days per week — Sunday, Monday and Friday. From Goa it should attain Ranchi on lately at 6.15pm and depart at 6.45pm. Equally, the airline will function a 72-seater ATR to Deoghar on Monday. A flight from Kolkata will attain Ranchi at 3pm, and can depart for Deoghar at 3.25pm. For Jaipur, flights will probably be operated on three days — Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. From Jaipur, a flight will arrive at 9.05am and depart at 9.35am.”
Notably, the Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation (DGCA)-approved home summer time schedule has come into drive from Sunday and can stay in drive until October 28. It has authorized flight companies to 6 new locations from Ranchi — Jaipur, Goa, Cochin, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Srinagar and Deoghar. Akasa, a brand new airline, has additionally obtained approval to function flights from Ranchi to Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
One other official stated, “Though airways have taken the DGCA approval precise operations rely on the respective airline based mostly on the demand and logistic readiness amongst others.”
At present, round 31 flights function each day from Ranchi airport to locations like Lucknow, Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi, Bhubneshwar, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Patna, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Chennai. Main operators embody Indigo, Vistara, and Go First.
Metropolis’s backpackers are elated over the summer time schedule. Meals entrepreneur Rakhi Singh stated, “A direct flight to Goa and Jaipur is a welcome step as many travellers from the state typically head to these locations around the 12 months. We’ve deliberate a household journey to Goa this 12 months and we will now immediately fly to the seaside metropolis with out having any hassles.”

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