Six new flights to connect Guwahati with South East Asian countries soon
The destinations to be connected with Guwahati under the scheme are Myanmar, Malaysia, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, he said.
GUWAHATI:
Paving the way for making Northeast a tourist hub, six new international flights will connect Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (GNBI) in Guwahati to Southeast Asian countries under the international Udaan scheme, a senior official of Assam’s transport department said on November 9
The destinations to be connected with Guwahati under the scheme are Myanmar, Malaysia, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, he said.
“As and when international air connectivity fully resumes, we are expecting to start the new flights,” he said.
The first flight under the international version of Udaan in India was launched between Guwahati and Dhaka on July 1, 2019, but its operation was put on hold a few months later due to lack of adequate passengers.
The suspension of flight operations between Guwahati and Bangkok from January 2020 too came as another major setback for the government's plan to transform the city into a travel hub in South East Asia.
The last international commercial flight through the Northeast was for Paro-Guwahati-Singapore, which was again suspended on March 20,2020 amid Covid scare.
Meanwhile, an official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) North Eastern Region (NER) said that other potential destinations such as Imphal and Agartala airports too can be connected as international destinations.
While the Agartala airport is likely to get international airport recognition soon after the inauguration of the new terminal building in December, the Imphal airport has already been recognised as an international airport and has seasonal air connectivity with Mandalay in Myanmar.
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