Bhubaneswar : The trial run of international flight operations from the Biju Patnaik airport in the city is set to take off from the first week of March.
This was decided at a high level meeting on Monday chaired by chief secretary J K Mohapatra. Global carriers like flydubai and Air Asia have submitted schedules to run commercial operations from Bhubaneswar. While flydubai will offer connectivity from Bhubaneswar to Dubai, Air Asia will run flights between Bhubaneswar and Kuala Lumpur.
Issues relating to manpower requirement at the airport, deployment of officers and personnel from the government and training of personnel were discussed at the meeting. Apart from flydubai and Air Asia, Air Arabia and SilkAir have also evinced interest to start commercial operations.
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