More Udan flights from Mysuru and Hubballi in 2 months

More flights under the Udan scheme are expected to fly out from smaller airports like Mysuru and Huballi in the next two months.

According to the plan outlined by the airlines, at least eight new services will be added to the network in August under the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (Udan) scheme.

Three other services are slated to start in next February, according to the plan.

This was disclosed in a written reply by Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Air Odisha is expected to start its operations on Mysuru-Chennai sector and IndiGo is expected to operate the Hubballi-Ahmedabad and Hubballi-Chennai flights from next month.

IndiGo will add one more service on its circuit by operating a Hubballi-Hyderabad flight in August while Ghodawat, which has won the Hubballi-Hindon route, will also start its service from next month.

IndiGo will also start its Hubballi-Ahmedabad and Hubballi-Chennai services next month.

Ghodawat’s Hubballi-Pune and Hubballi-Tirupati services are also slated to start next month. SpiceJet will also start its Hubballi-Pune flight under the Udan scheme from next month. The three Udan flights expected to start next February are Turbo Aviation’s Koppal-Bengaluru, Koppal-Goa and Koppal-Hyderabad flights. To another question, Sinha said the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has spent Rs 136.26 crore during 2009-14 and Rs 303.13 crore between 2014 and 2018 on civil aviation-related projects in Karnataka.