Amid the continued India-Maldives row, Alliance Air the one airline that operates to Lakshadweep has began further flights.
Resulting from a surge within the variety of passengers prepared to go to Lakshadweep, Alliance Air, the one Indian airline that operates to Lakshadweep, has began further flights to Kochi-Agatti-Kochi. A senior official of Alliance Air knowledgeable that the extra flights will function two days per week i.e. on Sunday and Wednesday.
Alliance Air, the one airline that runs in Lakshadweep, runs flights between Kochi in Kerala and Agatti island, which has a regional airport serving Lakshadweep.
The airways function 70-seater plane to the island day by day. It’s working at full capability and all tickets until March have been offered out, an official of the airline knowledgeable.
“We’re getting plenty of queries on the cellphone and social media relating to tickets. Following to the large demand for tickets, an extra flight has been added to the route. If required frequency of the flight can be elevated,” the official stated.
Just lately in an Annual Normal Assembly, Ajay Singh, CEO of SpiceJet additionally knowledgeable that the airline has unique rights below the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) for Lakshadweep and that they’ll quickly launch flights to Lakshadweep.
Nonetheless, journey portals have reported that they’re getting a document variety of queries for Lakshadweep.
India’s smallest Union Territory, Lakshadweep got here into the highlight after Prime Minister Modi shared pleasant photos from his go to to the Union Territory on January 22 and known as for harnessing seashore tourism within the island cluster.
Nonetheless, in a social media publish that was deleted later, Maldivian Deputy Minister of Youth Empowerment, Mariyam Shiuna, made a mocking and disrespectful reference to PM Modi’s go to to the Indian island cluster.
Amid an outpouring of anger on social media over the disparaging references to PM Modi, with #BoycottMaldives a high development throughout on-line boards, main faces from the Indian movie business in addition to high celebrities got here out in help of the decision to advertise seashore tourism in Lakshadweep.
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Revealed: 13 Jan 2024, 01:01 PM IST
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