by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, MAY 31
Seeking personal intervention of Union
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal today urged him to immediately start international flights from Chandigarh International Airport.
In
a letter to Mr Ajit Singh, the Chief Minister reiterated his request to direct
Air India and other Airlines
to start international flights from Chandigarh
forthwith. Mr Badal pointed out that the International Air connectivity from
Chandigarh has become all the more important now because of the upcoming
International Airport at Mohali which would connect the entire Northern region
comprising Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand and
even the Western part of Uttar Pradesh. For want of any International flights
from Mohali and Chandigarh daily a large number
of passengers from the Northern states were left with no other option but to
travel Delhi
for boarding these flights, which not only caused undue harassment to them but
also resulted in huge wastage of time, money and energy.
The
Chief Minister demanded immediate international flights to be made operational
from Chandigarh otherwise the entire purpose of incurring huge expenditure on
this prestigious International Airport would be defeated if our national
carrier Air India
failed to operate from here on International Routes.
Realizing
the fact of Air India’s inability to introduce direct domestic flights from
Amritsar and Chandigarh to Nanded in Maharashtra for facilitating the pilgrims
to pay obeisance at Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib due to resource
constraints, the Chief Minister impressed upon Mr Ajit Singh to use his good
office asking other schedule Airlines in India to service this important and
potentially busy sector.
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