Amritsar-Birmingham flight to start soon: Malik

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 27

Office -bearers of different associations welcomed MP Shwait Malik’s announcement that a direct flight between Amritsar and Birmingham will be started soon.

“Revival of the Amritsar-Birmingham direct flight twice a week will be announced soon,” Mailk said.

The citizens and airport authorities termed this flight as a first step to benefit Amritsar International Airport which Is running in huge debts and deeply hit by the conspiracy during long congress led central Govt. From 2010, this profitable flight was stopped and shifted to Delhi just to appropriate the cargo and passenger income of Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport and to divert finances to IGI Airport, he claimed.

Malik said he had started he started working on the pending demands of people who were keen on direct flights from Amritsar to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia and Dubai.

He said he met Civil Aviation Minister Gajapati Raju and MoS for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha several times on this issue and the result was there to see. He said he managed to get more than Rs 500 crore for providing state-of-the-art infrastructure at the Airport.

Rajinder Jain of the shawl Club of India along with Siddarth Khanna, member of the ICP Chamber of Commerce said the flight would not only increase the international connectivity but also bring prosperity to the region.

The flight will connect NRIs of Punjabi origin settled in the UK with their roots.