Belagavi: The low-cost passenger carrier IndiGo has come forward to launch the much-awaited flight between Belagavi and Chennai city from January 21. The Belagavi airport has announced of launching this new route through its official tweeter handle. The tweet says that IndiGo has announced direct Chennai flight for which booking has started already on the official website of Indigo airlines.
This flight be operational three days a wee that is on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The flight will depart from Belagavi at 10.55 and will reach Chennai at 1.15 pm. The same flight will depart from Chennai at 8.10 am and will reach Belagavi airport at 10.25 am. The flight schedule will remain the same for all three days a week. The flight will take two hours fifteen minutes to reach the destination.
The year 2021 has brought a lot of good news to Belagavi airport as it is getting connected to more new cities right from the first month. After tremendous growth reported despite COVID situations last year, Belagavi airport is all set to operate a direct flight to Chennai from January 21.
This route was long pending demand of the air travellers of Belagavi and has expressed happiness on social networks after announcing the route. Many people from Chennai are employed in Belagavi and people of Belagavi are employed in IT and another industrial sector in Chennai. Besides helping them, this flight will encourage tourism and trades between these two cities. Many people visit Chennai from Belagavi to get done Visa and also to travel abroad.
With this new route, Belagavi will have direct flight routes to 12 cities of India. The existing routes are Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Indore, Pune, Mysuru, Tirupati, Cuddappah, Surat, Ahmadabad and Mumbai. Nashik will be connecting from January 25.