Spicejet to Start Amritsar–Dehradun Flight from January 20 – AVM

Amritsar, Dec. 31 (Punjab Post Bureau) – SpiceJet is giving a new year gift to the travelers from Punjab and Uttarakhand by launching direct daily flight from Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport Amritsar to the Uttarakhand capital Dehradun from January 20, 2019. Dehradun will become 9th domestic and 17th overall airport to be directly connected with Amritsar. Booking for the flight is available on the airline website.

Sameep Singh Gumtala Convener FlyAmritasr Initiative and Overseas Secretary Amritsar Vikas Manch said that this flight will depart from Dehradun at 11:55am and will arrive at 12:35pm. Its return flight will leave Amritsar at 12:55pm and reach Dehradun at 1:35pm. The total duration of the flight will be 40 minutes with aircraft capacity for 78 passengers.

            Thanking Spicejet for the start of this flight, the start of this flight is being considered important as Haridwar and Rishikesh are only 35-40 km and famous mountainous area Mussoorie is also about 60 km from Dehradun airport. This will also facilitate devotees to Hemkunt Sahib and travelers to Tarai region (Rudrapur, Haldwani, Lalkuan) as their train or road journey will be reduced by about 10 hours with the direct flight. SpiceJet has also started flights to Bangkok and Goa in November, 2018.

            FlyAmritsar Initiative Co-Convener Yogesh Kamra informed thataccording to the monthly data released by Airport Authority of India, total passenger count from the airport have reached 15.5 lakh in first eight months of the financial year 2018-19 ending in November compared to the same period in 2017-18 with an increase of 9.5 percent. A total of 4 domestic and 4 international flights have started in this financial year. Due to this, total international passengersincreased by 23.1 in the current financial year.

          The year 2019 will bring more flights to the Airport. In November Ministry of Civil aviation accepted the demand of Amritsar Vikas Manch for new routes under UDAN (UdeDesh Ka AamNaagrik) – phase III of Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) by awarding six new routes to Amritsar under the scheme that included Patna, Jaipur, Kolkata, Dharamsala, Varanasi and Goa, said Gumtala.