New Delhi: Budget airline IndiGo announced Friday that over the next two months it will introduce a Varanasi-Bhubaneswar-Varanasi daily flight. It will be a part of the flights on six new routes which come under the Centre;s regional connectivity scheme UDAN. The two other flights will be to and from Prayagraj-Gorakhpur and Aizawl-Agartala.
Under the UDAN scheme, financial incentives in terms of concessions from the Centre, state governments and airport operators are extended to selected airlines to encourage operations from unserved and undeserved airports, and keep airfares affordable.
IndiGo also said it will start daily flights on routes such as Kolkata-Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur-Kolkata, Kolkata-Patna, Patna-Kolkata, Guwahati-Kolkata, Aizawl-Guwahati, Guwahati-Aizawl, Varanasi-Guwahati and Guwahati-Varanasi by February-end.
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