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In a couple of months, a domestic airline will be starting a daily flight between Bangalore and Hubli.

Bangalore-based Air Pegasus is aiming to start Bangalore-Hubli flight by March. The company’s director, Asswin, said they are planning to operate two flights between the two cities every day. He said they are looking at starting flights between Mangalore and Hubli too.

Asswin said the company is gearing up to serve commuters in tier-II and tier-III cities in South India. Besides the abovesaid cities, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Hyderabad and Chennai are on its radar. To start with, Air Pegasus will use 72-seater aircraft. By next year, it expects to acquire six wide-bodied aircraft.

Currently, Spice Jet is the only airline operating in Hubli, since September 2012. It operates two flights from Hubli—to Chennai via Bangalore, and to Delhi via Mumbai and Jabalpur.

Air Pegasus has been floated by Decor Aviation, one of the largest domestic airport ground-handling companies in the country. The company claimed its fare will be cheaper than its rivals’ due to a couple of advantages it enjoys: the task of managing the airport will be given to its parent company (Decor Aviation) and a fuel-efficient equipment. Asswin claimed that their fare will be comparable to trains’ AC fare.

He added that after a year, the company would expand its reach to Northern, Eastern and Western parts of the country. He said they are studying the possibility of connecting Delhi with cities like Hubli and Mangalore.

Hubli airport controller KM Basavaraj confirmed that Air Pegasus has approached the Airport Authority of India and that official discussions are on. He said the airline should be able to start operations in a couple of months.

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