{"id":619,"date":"2007-09-13T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=619"},"modified":"2007-09-13T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:44:20","slug":"more-details-on-sky-airways-plan-to-fly-to-connect-many-orissa-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/619","title":{"rendered":"More details on Sky Airways’ plan to fly to connect many Orissa towns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on the ad that appeared in Samaja<\/a>, there have been several reports with more details. Following are excerpts from a New Indian Express report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The airline will operate eight-seater aircraft from the Capital City to places like Barbil, Keonjhar, Jharsuguda, Jeypore, Sambalpur and Rayagada.<\/p>\n

Ticket fare to Barbil would cost around Rs 5000 and to Jeypore Rs 7000. For corporate flyers and individuals buying to and fro tickets, a 40 percent discount can be availed of as an introductory offer.<\/p>\n

General Manager (operations) Sumit Mukherjee said, those buying one-way ticket would also be given a 30 percent concession. Talking to mediapersons here, he said, the airline had already positioned one Islander BN2T turboprop aircraft capable of short takeoff and landing on these routes.<\/p>\n

The travelling time would vary from 50 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Services would run on all days expect Sundays. A Bell 206 BIII helicopter with four seats would be introduced for charter service, he said. Sky Airways is a division of New Delhi-based GSI Pvt. Ltd and is headquartered in Kolkata.<\/p>\n

… “We will introduce two aircraft to these places with a seating capacity for 19 passengers before the end of the current year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another news item mentioned that they plan to fly from such towns to Kolkata in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on the ad that appeared in Samaja, there have been several reports with more details. Following are excerpts from a New Indian Express report. The airline will operate eight-seater aircraft from the Capital City to places like Barbil, Keonjhar, Jharsuguda, Jeypore, Sambalpur and Rayagada. Ticket fare to Barbil would cost around Rs 5000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9,32,19,34,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airports-and-air-connectivity-in-orissa","category-district-jajpur","category-district-jharsugurha","category-district-keonjhar","category-district-koraput","category-district-rayagada","category-district-sambalpur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}