Air Deccan to fly to 7 more cities soon

Low cost carrier Air Deccan will launch flights to seven new destinations soon.

This initiative will help tap the market opportunities in regional routes, its Managing Director G R Gopinath told reporters in Pathankot.

The private carrier is launching a commercial flight to Pathankot from Wednesday.

"We are starting our flight service to Dharamsala, Jamshedpur, Bodhgaya, Kuchbihar, Mysore, Salem and Ludhiana. The facility will be in place within 2-3 month time," he said.

The feeder routes have remained unexploited. About 60 per cent of the country's aviation revenue is from the Delhi-Mumbai

route, Gopinath said.

Now less than two per cent of the country's population are travelling by air, he said.

"You cannot have a Mumbai-Delhi economy. You have to look for the entire country and see that people from all parts get air connectivity. If the feeder routes are activated, they will supplement to the trunk routes," he said.

Air Deccan has presently services to 61 airports. It has dropped its service on three routes due to "technical problems."

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