{"id":4563,"date":"2011-02-13T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T16:36:07","slug":"powerfly-air-charter-to-operate-from-8-cities-in-india-including-bhubaneswar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/4563","title":{"rendered":"Powerfly air charter to operate from 8 cities in India including Bhubaneswar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expresstravelworld.com\/201102\/market11.shtml\">a report in expresstravelworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"art-text\">Deccan Charters and TajAir have recently joined hands to form    a marketing alliance called Powerfly. The alliance includes Capt GR Gopinath&#8217;s    Deccan Charters, IHCL owned charter services TajAir and Business Jets India    (BJETS) and is poised to connect as many as 500 airports in India with the extensive    charter services. Capt Gopinath, CMD of Deccan Charters, said, &quot;The aim    of setting up Powerfly is to tap the top of the travelling pyramid, providing    seamless experience to international travellers. With Powerfly, we will be able    to provide hassle free travel to any location in the country with complete end-to-end    solutions.&quot; Powerfly services will be active from February 14, 2011 operating    from eight cities &#8211; <span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);\">Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad    and Jammu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"art-text\">The Powerfly alliance fleet will have 16 Deccan Charter crafts,    and four crafts each of TajAir and BJETS, bringing three Hawker 850XPs and the    Cessna Citation CJ-2, along with the P180 Avanti and the Falcons. Deccan Charters    will take over the maintenance and operations of the BJETS crafts. Deccan Charters    will also be the exclusive marketing concessionaire for BJETS aircraft in India    and will work on developing, expanding and consolidating the market across the    country through Powerfly. The combined fleet will be available through various    programmes including ad hoc charters and memberships, loyalty programmes that    extend across all three brands and the various hotels of Taj, and membership    options. &quot;People can buy hours and utilise them according to their needs.    We aim at tying up with major charter operators in Middle East, Europe and Singapore.    We are also looking at fractional ownership in these international destinations    and are currently in talks with the government to allow the same,&quot; added    Capt Gopinath.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"art-text\">The web pages of the three participating companies mentioned above are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanair.com\/\">Deccan Charters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tajaironline.com\/\">Taj Air<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bjets.com\/\">Business Jets India    (BJETS)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among these Deccan Charters shows a map of its major operations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"662\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/india_map02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What the above map and the list of eight locations in the Powerfly list suggests is that Bhubaneswar is one of the eight places in the country where a lot of charter flying happens. This is partly because of the development and growth happening in Odisha and partly because of the lack of airports in Odisha with regularly scheduled commercial airlines. Considering that a lot of charter flying happens by business houses, this means Bhubaneswar and Odisha are among the top 7 (Jammu is more for tourists) places in the country with ties to top business houses. While most of them are eying our mineral resources, Odisha should make efforts to cajole them to put positive long term legacies (such as Vedanta University) in Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report in expresstravelworld. Deccan Charters and TajAir have recently joined hands to form a marketing alliance called Powerfly. The alliance includes Capt GR Gopinath&#8217;s Deccan Charters, IHCL owned charter services TajAir and Business Jets India (BJETS) and is poised to connect as many as 500 airports in India with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,37,48,807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-deccan","category-airports-and-air-connectivity-in-orissa","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-powerfly-charter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}