The company plans to offer end-to-end logistics solutions where it has custodial charge of the cargo. Till the back-end warehouse infrastructure is ready at the airline's national hub in Nagpur, Gopinath's freighters will fly the Dubai-Mumbai-Delhi-Hong Kong route, offering dedicated cargo space to freight forwarders and serve anyone who wants to move international freight to these cities for time-definite delivery.
In a first by an Indian firm, Deccan Aviation chief Capt GR Gopinath on Friday announced the launch of Deccan Express Logistics, an air cargo and express logistic service on domestic and international routes.
How Captain Gopinath's new aviation business crash landed.
Capt Gopinath, in a deperate bid to fend off a possible auction of his prime residential property in Bangalore by State Bank of India, which had earlier issued notices to sell his pledged properties to recover as much as Rs 259 crore (Rs 2.59 billion), has struck a deal with Sobha Developers to raise funds.
SBI, the country's largest lender, had recently issued public auction notices to sell Gopinath's pledged properties