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Indigo brings new connectivity between Bhubaneswar and Coimbatore/Vizag

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As S. Pani points out Indigo is going to have the following new flights through Bhubaneswar:

Starting 16th Feb:
6E 293 Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Mumbai-Coimbatore
6E 294 Coimbatore-Mumbai-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata

Starting 7th March
6E 511 Chennai-Vizag-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata
6E 512 Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Vizag-Chennai

With these and other recent changes following is a glimpse of the flight connectivity between Bhubaneswar and other cities. We only show direct flights or flights with one stop (but no plane changes).

Kolkata:

Delhi: (Note – The Jetlite flight does not show up in the left.)Mumbai: (The Jetlite and Jet Konect flights below refer to the same flight.)

Bangalore: (The Jetlite and Jet Konect flights below refer to the same flight.)
Hyderabad: (For some reason the above Jet Konnect/Jet Lite flight to  Hyderabad does not show up below.)Chennai: (The Air India flight below is five days a week.)Visakhapatnam:      Port Blair: Coimbatore:

The new flights that Indigo introduced has the hopping schedule that South West airlines in USA has. Such a hopping schedule allows for additional 1 or 2 stop connections without plane changes. I hope in the future similar connectivity is added to places like Cochin, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Indore, Guwahati, Lucknow/Kanpur etc.

I also noticed that on some days the price to fly between Bhubaneswar and Mumbai is more than flying from Bhubaneswar to Coimbatore via Mumbai on the same flight.

Jet Airways adds more flights to/from Bhubaneswar; new direct flights to Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Raipur (update: and to Mumbai)

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Update on 3/19/2011: Jet adds a daily direct flight to Mumbai between 3/27/11 and 10/29/11.


Few years before, before Jet bought Sahara, the latter used to fly Bhubaneswar-Delhi, Bhubaneswar-Bangalore, Bhubaneswar-Chennai and Bhubaneswar-Kolkata routes. After Jet bought Sahara, Sahara was rechristened as Jetlite and Jetlite flew those routes but it then cancelled the first three and last year Jet Airways flights at Bhubaneswar only included two daily Jet Konnect flights between Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. 

So it is good news that in March 2011, Jet will start new Jet Konnect services in the routes of Bhubaneswar-Bangalore, Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar-Delhi and Bhubaneswar-Raipur. The outgoing flight timings of these flights are:

Bhubaneswar Bengaluru   2312 Jet Airways^ 123457 1500 1700 1-Mar-11 27-Mar-11
Bhubaneswar Bengaluru   2312 Jet Airways^ Daily 1500 1700 28-Mar-11 24-Mar-12
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2861 Jet Airways^ Daily 2015 2120 27-Mar-11 29-Oct-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 1240 1405 30-Oct-11 24-Mar-12
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2861 Jet Airways^ Daily 2015 2120 30-Oct-11 24-Mar-12
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 1240 1405 27-Mar-11 29-Oct-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 0905 1030 16-Feb-11 28-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 0905 1030 11-Feb-11 13-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2861 Jet Airways^ Daily 2015 2120 11-Feb-11 13-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 1025 1150 14-Feb-11 14-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 0905 1030 15-Feb-11 15-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2861 Jet Airways^ Daily 2030 2135 14-Feb-11 14-Feb-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2861 Jet Airways^ Daily 2015 2120 15-Feb-11 26-Mar-11
Bhubaneswar Kolkata   2851 Jet Airways^ Daily 1240 1405 1-Mar-11 26-Mar-11
Bhubaneswar Delhi   2296 Jet Airways^ Daily 0905 1105 27-Mar-11 24-Mar-12
Bhubaneswar Hyderabad   2376 Jet Airways^ Daily 0905 1035 27-Mar-11 24-Mar-12
Bhubaneswar Raipur   2311 Jet Airways^ 123457 1200 1300 1-Mar-11 27-Mar-11
Bhubaneswar Raipur   2311 Jet Airways^ Daily 1200 1300 28-Mar-11 24-Mar-12

 

With these additions come April the daily flight connectivity for Bhubaneswar increases to:

  • Bhubaneswar-Delhi: 6 flights (Air India, Indigo -2, Jet Konnect, Kingfisher Red -2)
  • Bhubaneswar-Mumbai: 3 flights (Air India, Indigo – with one stop at Hyderabad, Kingfisher Red); Jet Konnect has two good connecting flights with short connection times. (Update: 4 flights till 10/29/11; Jet introduces a Jet Konnect flight.)
  • Bhubaneswar-Kolkata: 4 flights (Jet Konnect -2, Kingfisher Red-2)
  • Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad: 3 flights (Jet Konnect, Indigo-2)
  • Bhubaneswar-Bangalore: 3 flights (Indigo – with one stop at Hyderabad, Jet Konnect, Kingfisher Red)
  • Bhubaneswar-Chennai: 1 flight (Air India), Jet Konnect has a good connecting flight with short connection times
  • Bhubaneswar-Raipur: 1 flight (Jet Konnect)

The above data in a matrix form is as follows:

  Air India Indigo Jet Konnect Kingfisher Red Total
Bangalore   1 (via Hyderabad) 1 1 2+1
Chennai 1       1
Delhi 1 2 1 2 6
Hyderabad   2 1   3
Kolkata     2 2 4
Mumbai 1 1 (via Hyderabad) 1 1 3+1
Raipur     1   1
Total 3 4+2 6+1 6 20+2

Status of Bhubaneswar airport upgradation: Civil aviation minister’s answer to a Rajya Sabha question

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Following is from a report in Business Standard.

The on-going developmental work at the Biju Patnaik airport in Bhubaneswar, which aims to upgrade the airport as an International airport, is likely to be completed by November, 2011.

The expansion work, being implemented by the Airport Authority of India (AAI), envisages construction of new domestic terminal building complex with all modern amenities, which includes two aerobridges at a cost of Rs 145.54 crore.

On completion of these works, the final capacity of the Bhubaneswar airport would be 970 domestic passengers and 348 international passengers during peak hours as per IMG norms, says Union minister of state for civil aviation, Praful Patel.

Funds earmarked for construction of new terminal building and extension of apron was Rs 160.45 crore. Out of this, Rs 24.59 crore has been spent by September, this year, Patel said in response to a query from Rajya Sabha MP, Renubala Pradhan.

The average number of passengers handled by the Bhubaneswar airport daily varies from 2500 to 3150. The average daily passengers handled by the airport was 2637 in April, 2506 in May, 3150 in June, 2657 in July, 2848 in August and 2517 in September this year.

Patel said, the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) operates daily flights in Delhi-Bhubaneswar-Delhi and Mumbai-Raipur-Bhubanswar-Mumabi sectors and five flights per week in Chennai-Bhubaneswar-Chennai sector.

Similarly, the Jet Airways operates daily flights in Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata sector, while Kingfisher Airlines operates Mumbai-Bhubaneswar-Mumbai and Bangalore-Bhubaneswar-Bangalore and Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata sector (twice daily) flights.

Indigo operates Delhi-Bhubaneswar-Delhi (twice daily) and Hyderabad-Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad flights.

Air India reintroduces Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Chennai-Bangalore flight

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Following is an excerpt from a report in New Indian Express.

The public carrier has decided to reintroduce the Kolkata-Bangalore flight via Bhubaneswar and Chennai on February 18. A brand new Airbus 319 would be introduced on this lucrative sector.

… The new flight will boast of business class. It will operate on all the days of the week and would leave Bangalore at 9.30 in the morning and arrive here at 1 pm and in Kolkata at 2.35 pm. It will reach Chennai at 10.15 and take off at 11.05 am.

In the return direction, the flight will take off from Kolkata at 3.25 pm and arrive here at 4.20 pm. It will leave at 5 pm and arrive in Chennai at 6.55 pm and depart at 7.45 pm. The plane will touch down in Bangalore at 8.30 pm.

2nd terminal in Bhubaneswar and new airport in Jharsuguda: Samaja

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Kingfisher plans Hyderabad- Bhubaneswar- Varanasi- Gaya flights; Srilankan airlines considering Bhubaneswar- Chennai- Colombo flights: Sambada

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Update: New Indian Express reports that Air Deccan has plans to connect Bhubaneswar with Tirupati.

Indigo to connect Bhubaneswar with Mumbai and Kolkata starting from Jan 29th.

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Its schedule is as follows:

6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Bangalore 11:30 AM 2:45 PM Tuesday Hyderabad  
6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Bangalore 11:35 AM 2:45 PM Ex. Tuesday Hyderabad  
6E 252 Bhubaneshwar Delhi 7:10 PM 9:20 PM Daily    
6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Hyderabad 11:30 AM 12:55 PM Tuesday    
6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Hyderabad 11:35 AM 12:55 PM Ex. Tuesday    
6E 407 Bhubaneshwar Kolkata 8:50 AM 10:10 AM Daily   eff 29 Jan
6E 408 Bhubaneshwar Mumbai 9:25 PM 12:05 AM Daily   eff 29 Jan
6E 251 Delhi Bhubaneshwar 8:55 AM 11:00 AM Daily
6E 252 Hyderabad Bhubaneshwar 5:10 PM 6:40 PM Daily
6E 252 Bangalore Bhubaneshwar 3:30 PM 6:40 PM Daily Hyderabad
           
6E 408 Kolkata Bhubhaneswar 7:45 PM 8:50 PM Daily   eff 29 Jan
6E 407 Mumbai Bhubhaneswar 6:05 AM 8:10 AM Daily   eff 29 Jan

 

Indian Airlines Schedule to/from Bhubaneswar

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The following is from http://203.94.240.226/iaschedule/iaschedule.xls.

Bhubaneshwar Bangalore IC-0512 320 25 1325 1520 8-Oct-07
Bhubaneshwar Chennai(Madras) CD-7542 737 1356 1555 1750 15-Nov-07
Bhubaneshwar Delhi CD-7479 737 12457 2030 2230 10-Nov-07
Bhubaneshwar Delhi IC-0878 319 Daily 1405 1605 1-Nov-07
Bhubaneshwar Kolkata(Calcutta) CD-7541 737 3 1230 1325 8-Nov-07
Bhubaneshwar Kolkata(Calcutta) CD-7541 737 156 1230 1325 15-Nov-07
Bhubaneshwar Kolkata(Calcutta) CD-7541 737 1356 1230 1325 16-Apr-08
Bhubaneshwar Mumbai(Bombay) IC-0169 320 Daily 1415 1615 10-Nov-07
Bangalore Bhubaneshwar IC-0511 320 25 1030 1225 8-Oct-07  
Chennai(Madras) Bhubaneshwar CD-7541 737 3 1005 1200 8-Nov-07
Chennai(Madras) Bhubaneshwar CD-7541 737 156 1005 1200 15-Nov-07
Chennai(Madras) Bhubaneshwar CD-7541 737 1356 1005 1200 16-Apr-08
Delhi Bhubaneshwar CD-7479 737 12457 1655 2000 10-Nov-07
Delhi Bhubaneshwar IC-0877 319 Daily 1120 1320 1-Nov-07
Kolkata(Calcutta) Bhubaneshwar CD-7542 737 1356 1430 1525 15-Nov-07
Mumbai(Bombay) Bhubaneshwar IC-0169 320 Daily 1025 1335 10-Nov-07
Raipur Bhubaneshwar IC-0169 320 Daily 1235 1335 10-Nov-07
Ranchi Bhubaneshwar CD-7479 737 12457 1910 2000 10-Nov-07

 

Bangalore Bhubaneshwar IC-0511 320 25 1030 1225 8-Oct-07

Kingfisher schedule to/from Bhubaneswar

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The following is from http://www.flykingfisher.com/schedule.asp?tab=3.

BHUBANESHWAR                
KOLKATA
IT2504
2025
2140
Daily
28/10/2007
29/3/2008
ATR
 
KOLKATA
IT2502
0915
1030
Daily
28/10/2007
29/3/2008
ATR

KOLKATA TO

BHUBANESHWAR
IT2501
0730
0845
Daily
28/10/2007
29/3/2008
ATR
 
BHUBANESHWAR
IT2503
1840
1955
Daily
28/10/2007
29/3/2008
ATR
 

Air Deccan schedule to/from Bhubaneswar

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The following is from http://www.airdeccan.net/data/flightinfo/from_bhubaneshwar.html.

Bhubaneswar to

Flight No. Destination ATR / Airbus Departure Time Arrival
Time
Days of Operation Validity of Schedule
From To
DN-765 Bangalore Airbus 21:50 23:40 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008
DN-677 Delhi Airbus 17:45 19:45 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008
DN-608 Hyderabad Airbus 10:50 12:15 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008
DN-641 Kolkata Airbus 8:05 8:45 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008
DN-642 Mumbai Airbus 10:25 12:25 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Bangalore to

DN-766 Bhuvaneshwar Airbus 19:30 21:20 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Delhi to

DN-608 Bhuvaneshwar Airbus 8:20 10:20 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Hyderabad to

DN-677 Bhuvaneshwar Airbus 15:50 17:15 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Kolkata to

DN-642 Bhuvaneshwar Airbus 9:15 9:55 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Mumbai to

DN-641 Bhuvaneshwar Airbus 5:35 7:35 Daily 28th Oct 2007 29th Mar 2008

 

Indigo to connect Bhubaneswar with Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai from December and January

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From Nov 17th Indigo starts flights connecting BBSR to Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad. We wrote about this in http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/?p=818. Current reports mention plans beyond that. Following is an excerpt from a report on this in Tathya.in.

The airline is going to introduce new connectivity from Bhubaneswar to Mumbai & Kolkata in December and to Chennai in January 2008.

The current schedule is at http://book.goindigo.in/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi?module=c3&page=DESTINATIONSNEW.

The current schedule is:

6E 252 Bhubaneshwar Delhi 7:10 PM 9:20 PM Daily
6E 251 Delhi Bhubaneshwar 8:55 AM 11:00 AM Daily

6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Hyderabad 11:35 AM 12:55 PM Daily
6E 252 Hyderabad Bhubaneshwar 5:20 PM 6:40 PM Daily

6E 251 Bhubaneshwar Bangalore 11:35 AM 2:45 PM Daily Hyderabad
6E 252 Bangalore Bhubaneshwar 3:30 PM 6:40 PM Daily Hyderabad

Jetlite’s schedule: Ad in Samaja

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Airports and air connectivity in Orissa

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As of today, Orissa has only one airport with commercial flights. That airport is in Bhubaneswar. Following is copied from my site “Orissalinks: Airports and air connectivity in Orissa.”

Bhubaneswar:

  • Indian (schedule: daily flights to/from Kolkata [direct], Mumbai [Mumbai-Raipur-BBSR-Mumbai], Delhi [direct], Delhi-Ranchi-BBSR-Delhi, Bangalore [via-Chennai], and Chennai [direct], plus twice a week direct flight to-from Bangalore)
  • Air Sahara (network, schedule: direct daily flights to/from Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi) – the Kolkata flight is no longer there in the current schedule,
  • Air Deccan (schedule: two daily direct flights between BBSR and Kolkata and daily flights between BBSR and Delhi, BBSR and Mumbai, BBSR and Visakhapatnam, BBSR and Hyderabad, BBSR and Chennai and BBSR and Bangalore (via Chennai). A flight between Ranchi and BBSR is also in the offing.)
  • Kingfisher (schedule: daily flights to Hyderabad and Delhi [via Hyderabad])
  • Wonder air chopper service (chopper flights from Bhubaneswar to Keonjhar and on to Barbil from Feb 9th 2007)
  • Spicejet (coming soon)
  • Indigo (coming soon)
  • Cities connected directly (non-stop or reachable with one-stop but without changing planes)

    • Delhi [3+2] (Indian: daily, Indian/Alliance Air: daily, Delhi-Ranchi-BBSR-Delhi, Air Sahara: daily, Kingfisher: daily via Hyderabad, Air Deccan: daily)
    • Kolkata [3] (Indian: daily, Air Sahara: no more, Air Deccan: twice daily)
    • Hyderabad [3] (Air Sahara: daily, Kingfisher: daily, Air Deccan: daily)
    • Mumbai [1+1] (Indian: daily, Mumbai-Raipur-BBSR-Mumbai; Air Deccan: daily)
    • Chennai [2] (Indian: daily, Air Deccan: daily)
    • Bangalore [.3+2] (Indian: daily via Chennai, Indian: 2/week direct, Air Deccan: daily via Chennai)
    • Visakhapatnam [1] (Air Deccan: daily)
    • Ranchi [1,0] (Air Deccan : in cards, details awaited, Indian/Alliance Air: Delhi-Ranchi-BBSR-Delhi)
    • Raipur [1,0] (Mumbai-Raipur-BBSR-Mumbai)
    • Keonjhar, Orissa (wonder air, chopper service from Feb 9th 2007)
    • Barbil, Orissa (wonder air, chopper service from Feb 9th 2007)

  • More connectivity (planned connections):
  • New Indian budget airlines expected to launch during 2007: AirOne Feeder Airline (based in Bangalore); Magic Air; Indus Air; Easy Air; and Star Air. (more information)
  • Connectivity wishlist (Oct 26, 2006)
    • BBSR-Rourkela
    • More BBSR-Bangalore (on the way to Goa)
    • BBSR-Pune (on the way to Mumbai)
    • BBSR-Jaipur (on the way to Delhi)
    • BBSR-Goa (with stop over in Bangalore)
    • BBSR-Varanasi (on the way to Srinagar/Delhi/Chandigarh)
    • BBSR-Kochi (with stop over in Chennai)
    • BBSR-Guwahati (with stop over in Kolkata)
    • BBSR-Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur/Seoul (Delhi/Mumbai-BBSR-Bangkok/KL/Seoul)
    • BBSR-London (Kolkata-BBSR-London)
  • Airport plans: [Oct22-05-priority-BBSR-Shillong-Dimapur-Nagpur]
  • Editor’s comment, Sept 20’05: The private colleges in Orissa should get together with Infosys, Satyam etc. to establish free public wi-fi in Bhubaneswar airport and Bhubaneswar railway station. At this point, it might be a first for the country. It will distinguish Bhubaneswar, generate a lot of publicity, with software companies and airline companies taking notice of it.
  • Cities connected (direct or with a stopover), timings
  • Rourkela: There is an airport to which Indian Airlines used to fly. Service to it needs to be reintroduced as soon as possible.
  • Plans to develop Jharsuguda airstrip to a full-fledged airport: [1]
  • Sites for flight news with respect to India: Aviation India; Indian A&D
  • A site for flight tickets: http://cleartrip.com