PATNA: Carrier budget SpiceJet is set to launch its non-stop flight from Patna to Siliguri (Bagdogra airport) on Tuesday. The airline will also start one flight between Darbhnaga and Amritsar via Mumbai the same day.
SpiceJet’s average daily aircraft operating at Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport will be increased to 15 with the commencement of a flight to Bagdogra airport in Siliguri. According to the airline’s executives, the Siliguri flight will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The flight SG-3725 will leave Patna at 3.05pm and land at Bagdogra at 4.10pm. On return, it will touch down at Patna airport at 5.55pm. It will complete its one-way journey in one hour and five-minutes.
The airline’s executive at Patna airport told this newspaper that SpiceJet has recently launched three flights on Kolkata, Surat and Bengaluru routes after the Centre eased the cap on its operations. “We hope the flight to Siliguri would get good response from the flyers. The booking for the flight scheduled for July 20 is almost full,” he said.
Patna airport is presently operating 35 flights on different non-stop routes, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Surat, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Chennai and Amritsar.
Meanwhile, the daily flight from Amritsar will land at Darbhanga at 3.50pm. The number of flights operating from Darbhnaga airport will go up to 11 from 10.
