The first Air Deccan flight will take off on December 22.
The Country's low cost airline, Air Deccan, is all set to relaunch its operations in December. The airline made headlines for offering tickets at the starting price of Re 1.
Founded by GR Gopinath in 2003, Air deccan merged with business tycoon Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines in 2008 but was grounded in 2012 due to low finances.
But now, the airlines is all set to make a comeback. Initially, it will begin with four bases at Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Shillong, connecting them with smaller cities around them.
The first Air Deccan flight will take off on December 22. The flight will be departed from Nashik to arrive at Mumbai, Gopinath told Mint in an interview.
“This will be my last Udan and then I will hang up my boots,” told Gopinath to the newspaper.
Air Deccan revival has been possible due to the government's Udan scheme (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik). Th egovernment scheme offers travellers to connect them with small towns in fares as low as Rs 2,500 for a duration of one-hour flight.
Gopinath also tol dthe newspaer that some of the lucky customers will also be able to purchase tickets in just Re 1. However, the starting price of most tickets will be Rs 1,400.
Air Deccan will also operate daily return flights between Nashik and Pune and Mumbai and Jalgaon.
By January the airline plans to station a second aircraft in Delhi to connect the city with Agra, Shimla, Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Dehradun and Kullu, the news report mentioned.
Air Deccan will also station two planes in Kolkata, flying them to Jamshedpur, Rourkela, Durgapur, Bagdogra, Burnpur, Cooch Behar, Agartala, and from Shillong to Imphal, Dimapur, Aizawl and Agartala. The airline Deccan will use 19-seater Beech 1900 D planes that are used worldwide. Three of these planes have already joined its fleet and two more will be added over the next few weeks, according to Gopinath.
By January, four planes will be used for services and one will be kept on standby.
Gopinath said he would have expanded faster. xpand faster but is not getting slots and parking at the congested Mumbai and Delhi airports and flying to airports on the outskirts would ruin the small airline before it has taken its first baby steps.
Initially the airline was not granted even one slot at these airports and it took several requests made to the aviation ministry before a few slots were given, said Gopinath.
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