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Direct flight to Shirdi from Hyderabad soon Prez to inaugurate airport in temple town on Oct 1
With the successful landing of trial flight to the newly-constructed Shirdi airport, the stage is set for the inauguration of the aerodrome in the temple town by President Ram Nath Kovind on October 1. However, the full-fledged commercial operations will commence at a later date, including one flight from Hyderabad.
Shirdi: With the successful landing of trial flight to the newly-constructed Shirdi airport, the stage is set for the inauguration of the aerodrome in the temple town by President Ram Nath Kovind on October 1. However, the full-fledged commercial operations will commence at a later date, including one flight from Hyderabad.
The 72-seater plane of Air India's regional arm Alliance Air took off from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 4.15 pm and successfully landed in 45 minutes at Shirdi airport.
Besides Alliance Air, the Hyderabad-based regional airline TruJet and Zoom Air will also be flying to Shirdi. Budget carrier IndiGo has also applied for launching air services to Shirdi. To begin with, four flights will be operated from Mumbai and one each from Delhi and Hyderabad. In all, the airport will handle 12 flights a day.
According to an estimate, about 60,000 pilgrims visit Shirdi every day. The airport authorities plan to tap at least 12 per cent of the tourists. Constructed at an investment of around Rs 350 crore, including Rs 50 crore from the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust,
the airport is capable of handling single narrow-body aircraft, such as Airbus A320 and Boeing 737s with a 2,500- metre long runway. The 2,750 sqm terminal building has been designed to handle a total of 300 passengers, including the arriving ones.
