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Friday, 17 February 2017

‘Footfall of international passengers up by 50 pc in 2016’

Amritsar: The footfall of international passengers at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport increased by 50 per cent in 2016 compared to the corresponding period in 2015. From January to November 2016, the number of passengers increased to 4,53,012, which was 2,90,448 in the same period in 2015.
“However, this is not being seen as a big success,” said office-bearers of the Amritsar Vikas Manch (AVM), a city-based NGO.
They rued that neither any political party nor any contesting leader took up the issue of starting more international flights from the local airport.
They demanded that Air India and Jet Airways should start non-stop, direct international flights from Amritsar.
They said: “The credit of increasing the footfall goes to new non-stop international flights launched by Malindo, Scoot and Spicejet from the Amritsar airport and continuation of flights by foreign carriers, including Qatar, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Airlines.”
“However, national carrier Air India has not started any direct flight from Amritsar and continues to connect passengers to international destinations via Delhi,” they said.
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