{"id":5305,"date":"2011-10-03T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2011-10-10T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T11:35:37","slug":"air-india-introduces-delhi-portblair-flight-with-stopover-in-bhubaneswar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5305","title":{"rendered":"Air India introduces Delhi-Portblair flight with stopover in Bhubaneswar;"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> on 10th October 2011: The Delhi – Bhubaneswar – Port Blair Air India (6 days a week) flight will allow boarding and deplaning of passengers at Bhubaneswar. This will not only provide Bhubaneswar – Port Blair connectivity; it will also incraese connectivity between Bhubaneswar and Delhi. Air India also plans to have another daily Bhubaneswar – Delhi flight<\/a> taking the total number of daily AI flights between these cities to (almost) three   and taking the total number of daily Bhubaneswar – Delhi flights to almost eight – 7 dailies and one 6 days a week. Following is a screen copy from http:\/\/www.cleartrip.com\/<\/a> on the dates Nov 2 2011 and Nov 3 2011.<\/p>\n

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Following is an excerpt from a report in Deccan Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Keeping in mind the high tourist potential, Air India subsidiary Alliance Air has introduced a direct flight to Port Blair<\/span> from here via Bhubaneswar<\/span> and would operate a new 70-seater jet plane.<\/p>\n

Giving holiday makers another reason to cheer, Air India’s direct flight AI 9603\/9604 would be operated with Bombardier’s CRJ-700 on all days of the week, except Saturday, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The above news item is confirmed from the Air India web site. See the screen capture below.<\/p>\n

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As the following map shows Bhubaneswar is very close to the straight line between Delhi and Port Blair. The stop-over in Bhubaneswar allows Air India to use a smaller aircraft that can be refueled in Bhubaneswar. I hope Air India will allow people to get on and off at Bhubaneswar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the map above shows Bhubaneswar is also very close to the straight line connecting Delhi to Jakarta, Delhi to Singapore and Delhi to Kwalalumpur. I hope  some of the airlines take note of that and introduce flights between those places with a stopover in Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Mumbai to Hongkong and Mumbai to Taipei also passes very close to Bhubaneswar. Updated the map above to illustrate that.<\/p>\n

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Update on 10th October 2011: The Delhi – Bhubaneswar – Port Blair Air India (6 days a week) flight will allow boarding and deplaning of passengers at Bhubaneswar. This will not only provide Bhubaneswar – Port Blair connectivity; it will also incraese connectivity between Bhubaneswar and Delhi. Air India also plans to have another daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,541,784,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-indiaindian","category-bhubaneswar-airport","category-bringing-international-connectivity","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","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=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}