Flight bookings from Darbhanga to start by Sept-end: Puri

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 12

Flight bookings from Darbhanga to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru will start by the end of September, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday. This will act as a boon for 22 districts of North Bihar, he added.

After reviewing work at the Darbhanga airport in Bihar, the minister said flight operations would begin in the first week of November before the auspicious festival of Chhath Puja. He went on to add that the aviation facility is going to be a boon for 22 districts of North Bihar.

The elections in Bihar are set to take place in October-November. Puri reviewed the progress and construction status of the Darbanga airport along with Gopal Jee Thakur, MP, Darbhanga, Ashok Yadav, MP, Madhubani, Pradeep Singh Kharola, secretary, MoCA, Arvind Singh, chairman, AAI, and other officials.

He added that arrival and departure halls, check-in facility, conveyor belt, etc. had already been installed and the remaining work would be completed before end of October. Spicejet has already been awarded this route under RCS-UDAN.