Mysore/Mysuru: IndiGo airlines has begun flight services from Mysuru to Hubballi. It will be a triweekly flight and the service was inaugurated at the Mysore Airport, Mandakalli, last evening.
Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha, Mayor Sunanda Palanetra, Mysore Airport Director R. Manjunath, Mysuru Travels Association President C.A. Jayakumar, Dr. Anil Thomas, industrialist S.K. Dinesh and others were present during the inauguration.
The airline will operate between the two routes every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The ATR plane 6E7189 will leave Hubballi at 5.05 pm and will reach Mysuru at 6.05 pm. The IndiGo flight 6E7191 will leave Mysuru at 6.25 pm and reach Hubballi at 7.40 pm.
The MP thanked Union Minister Pralhad Joshi for the flights as it was the Minister who had asked IndiGo to explore the possibility of introducing flights from Hubballi to Mysuru and Mangaluru. The Centre and State Governments are committed to increase more flights and also upgrade the existing runway to handle bigger planes, he added.
The first day of the flight yesterday received a good response with 21 passengers coming to Mysuru from Hubballi and 24 fliers proceeding to Hubballi. The flight from Hubballi was accorded a water cannon salute on landing at the Mysore Airport.
Like the Mysore Airport, the Mangaluru International Airport got a direct flight connectivity to Hubballi from May 1. Operated by IndiGo using an ATR aircraft, the flights to Hubballi will fly four times a week on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday with flight 6E7189 arriving at Mangaluru at 6.05 pm and flight 6E7191 departing at 6.35 pm.
Airport Director Manjunath said that the Hubballi flight has initiated speedy connectivity between Mysuru and Hubballi and this will boost trade and commerce, promote business travel between the two cities and also give an impetus to tourism. The ticket price has been fixed at Rs. 3,450.
At present, travellers rely on trains and buses that usually take 12 hours to reach Hubballi. The direct flight will save a lot of time. “The flight duration to Hubballi from Mysuru is just one hour. We will see the response to the flight and decide on making it a daily flight if there are many takers to the flight. Also, we are looking at restarting the Belagavi flight that was stopped sometime ago,” Manjunath said.
The Second Largest City and Third Largest City in Karnataka are now connected. it would be great if this flight is extended to New Delhi so that both Mysuru and Huballi are connected to New Delhi. Mysuru-Huballi-NewDelhi, New Delhi Huballi-Mysuru.
Next the two other major Metros Mumbai and Kolkata need to be connected to Mysuru. a Mysuru-Pune-Mumbai Flight. This Flight will help businessmen who need to visit the financial capital of India and also tourists can get connecting flights to Shirdi from Pune.
The Hyderabad Flight can be Extended to Kolkata, Mysuru-Hyderabad-Kolkatta or a new flight Mysuru -Visakhapatnam-Kolkata which will connect Mysuru with the largest city in Andhra Pradesh.it will also be a connectivity flight for tourists from Odisha and North East India to visit Mysuru.
@Kini and MP Simha are villains , out to destroy Mysore ,in the name of tourism. They are not Mysoreans, never cared for Mysore. @Kini , I suspect would like to run the tourist route he mentions.
These 2 idiots should realise, developments are not always good. But, they do not care.
Take this proposed expansion of Mysore airport. Whatever this fool @Kini says, it will benefit only for the Malayalee criminal bosses who are currently smuggling gold from the Gulf Countries to Kerala through its 4 airports, and want to expand their business to Mysore.
The expanded airport will receive Boeing 738 and Airbus A320 jetliners which have the range to fly non-stop from Doha, Abu Dhabi ,Dubai to Mysore. This is what the Kerala government wants too. They are the enthusiastic supporters of Greater Mysore plan, as it enables them to encourage Malayalees to settle in Mysore, as they are already doing . Mysore will businesses owned by Malayalees through the laundered money from the above gold smuggling.
Just a few days ago, we read in the SOM, the incidence of Hawala money transaction enforcement by criminal gangs from Kerala, who are evidently the armed reps of the above Malayalee criminal bosses in the Gulf countries, who operate arguably the biggest Hawala money network in India.
This fool Simha’s Hassan-Kodagu-Kerala Highway plan means massive influx of Malayalees to Greater Mysore. The Kerala government sees Greater Mysore as worthy of their citizens’ settlements , as this area is not as densely populated as Kerala. Within a decade, Malayalam will be dominant language of Greater Mysore. The Wayanad-Nanjangud-Mysore corridor will enable literally the expansion of Kerala border through Malayalee settlements. MP Simha will be blamed for this fiasco for years to come.
Hey Kini
Why do you stop mentioning only those destinations?
If the Mysore airport when expanded, can receive A320 jet aircraft, You can operate a lucrative tourism run to Bangkok, with just one stop over in the middle of that route. Once, this flood gate of jet aircraft operation is opened, leaving the international airport for travel towards the West, ,Mysore would be most suited for Eastward travel. Hence the lucrative Bangkok run! Thanks to MP Simha!!
The focus will then be shifted from my native Mumbai to Mysore. The Sheikhs from the Gulf Countries, as the above poster said will be interested in that Bangkok run!
We liked the Mysore of decades ago, and hence a branch of our business here. But, we will wind it up, looking at what Mysore has become these days.
Hey Kini
Why do you stop mentioning only those destinations?
If the Mysore airport when expanded, can receive A320 jet aircraft, You can operate a lucrative tourism run to Bangkok, with just one stop over in the middle of that route. Once, this flood gate of jet aircraft operation is opened, leaving the international airport for travel towards the West, ,Mysore would be most suited for Eastward travel. Hence the lucrative Bangkok run! Thanks to MP Simha!!
The focus will then be shifted from my native Mumbai to Mysore. The Sheikhs from the Gulf Countries, as the above poster said will be interested in that Bangkok run!
We liked the Mysore of decades ago, and hence a branch of our business here. But, we will wind it up, looking at what Mysore has become these days.
Many Mysoreans are complaining about trains like Chamundi Express after covering Mysore-Kengeri distance in 2 hours, is made to stop at Kengeri for 1 hour at times as KSR is not ready to receive the train. This happens almost every day.
The above does not interest MP like Simha, whose job is to talk to the Railway Minister and fix this scandal But he is not doing , instead he indeluges in projects like these , which perhaps he benefits personally from, as tourism is involved?
No wonder Indian politics so disgustingly corrupt.