Amritsar, October 2
Comtel Air's maiden chartered flight carrying 195 passengers (mostly on a pilgrimage package) from Vienna ,Austria, landed at Sri Guru Ram Das International Airport here today.
The all-economy flight will run twice a week (Sunday and Monday). Comtel Air’s CO Richard Fluke said a Boeing 757 aircraft was being used on the route which had a cargo capacity of 43 tonnes.
Jasbir Mann of Comtel Air said the aircraft, with a passenger capacity of 220, had make a successful flight with 195 passengers on board. He said passengers from across Europe were brought to Vienna on feeder aircraft who then boarded the direct flight to Amritsar.
A visibly pleased Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu said there was every liklihood of the flight being converted into a scheduled flight.
This non-stop flight would help the passengers (a majority of them NRIs from Punjab} reach Europe in about six hours, he said.
The Amritsar MP said the flight passengers enjoyed the special facility of being flown from here to Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, free of cost.
He said talks were on with private airlines for connectivity between Amritsar and Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, he added.
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