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more than six-month-long wait to catch an international flight from the new
Chandigarh airport would end this summer. Private airline Indigo has obtained
the necessary approval to launch Chandigarh-Dubai flight from Indian as well as
Dubai authorities. The timing would be released in the summer schedule to
commence from March 27. Highly-placed sources said an aircraft having a
capacity of 180 seats would fly daily between the two cities.
Assistant
solicitor general Chetan Mittal made a formal communication about the final
clearance before the Punjab and Haryana high court through a status report on
Monday. Mittal said Indigo currently has an unutilized allocation of seven
flights/1,260 seats per week in each direction on Chandigarh-Dubai route and it
would commence its operations in the forthcoming summer schedule of flights.
The private airline confirmed about the commencement of international flight
from Chandigarh to the ministry of civil aviation in its communication on March
18.
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proposal from Indigo was pending for past many years. Recently, the Dubaiairport authorities had allotted a slot to the private airline for operating a
Dubai-Chandigarh flight. Regarding the offer of Fly Dubai and Bulgarian
airlines to operate Chandigarh-Dubai and Chandigarh-Sofia flights, the
assistant solicitor general told the high court that the ministry of civil
aviation has no objection but these airlines have to seek permission from their
governments. It was stated that their governments should initiate diplomatic talks
for amendments in existing bilateral agreement regarding allocation seats to
run foreign flights.
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