KOLHAPUR: Air connectivity between Kolhapur and Ahmedabad is set to resume from July 17 and the flights will operate on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The flight services between the two cities was stopped due to the Covid pandemic three months ago. But as the situation started to improve traders from Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and Sindhudurg districts had started demanding resumption of the flights.
The plane will take off from Ahmedabad at 7:50am and will reach Kolhapur at 10:10am. The same flight will then take-off from Kolhapur at 10:30am and reach Ahmedabad at 12:50pm on the aforementioned days.
Lalit Gandhi, deputy head of Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, said, “Traders and industrialists from Kolhapur and surrounding districts keep travelling to Ahmedabad for business purposes. The demand to re-start the flight service was being made from many days and now it is finally getting started. It will get good response from the travellers”.
The Kolhapur-Ahmedabad flight service will be operated by IndiGo airlines. Vishal Bhargav, airport manager for IndiGo airline, said, “The flight service to Ahmedabad was getting good response when it started this year on February 22 but due to Covid restrictions and compulsory RT-PCR negative test report, the passenger count had dropped. Now, after a gap of three months the service will resume again. Also, the Kolhapur-Tirupati flight service is subject to opening of the temples.”
