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Daily flight service from Tiruchi to Bangalore

S. Ganesan

TIRUCHI : Kingfisher Airlines will introduce a daily service in the Bangalore-Tiruchi-Bangalore sector from January 10.

The airline will be the second private operator to introduce operations from Tiruchi after Air Deccan, which is already operating in the Chennai-Tiruchi-Chennai sector.

Kingfisher Airlines has been given the clearance by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for operating the service, airport sources told The Hindu on Wednesday.

The airlines will operate a 72-seater ATR72 aircraft on the sector.

As per the schedule put up in the airlines web site, flight (IT2435) will depart from Bangalore at 1.30 p.m. and arrive Tiruchi at 2.25 p.m. on all weekdays except Sundays.

In the return direction, the flight (IT2436) will leave Tiruchi at 2.55 p.m. and reach Bangalore at 3.50 p.m.

On Sundays, flight IT 2435 will leave Bangalore at 10.30 a.m. and reach Tiruchi at 11.25 a.m.

In the return direction, flight (IT2436) will depart from Tiruchi at 11.55 a.m., and reach Bangalore at 12.50 p.m.

Meanwhile, the Airports Authority of India has put on hold the commissioning of the extended runway at the airport, pending glidepath calibration.

The airport officials had earlier planned to commission the extended runway on January 1.

A trial calibration of the relocated Instrument Landing System (ILS) conducted a few months back identified certain obstructions.

Airport sources said they were expecting the AAI special flight soon to carry out a fresh calibration.

But the delay has come as a disappointment for air operators who are keen on operating services from here.

Air India Express, which had planned to introduce services to Dubai, had kept its plans in abeyance.

A technical team of the airline, after a recent visit to assess the infrastructure available at the airport, had reportedly raised doubts over the strength of the taxiway and the apron to withstand the Boeing 737-800 aircrafts.

Relaying of the top layer of the existing runway has also run into trouble following a dispute between the contractor and the AAI.

However, AAI sources say that these were not major operational impediments. Work on strengthening the apron has been taken up recently.

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