Air Travel For Just ₹150: Do air travel for just ₹150, know from where to where the company is providing the facility.

Air Travel For Just ₹150: Air travel can be done in Assam for just ₹150. This is the cheapest flight in the country. Airline company Alliance Air is providing this facility under the 'Udaan' (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme of the Central Government. This flight is being operated from Tezpur to Lilabari Airport in Lakhimpur district. The company has two daily flights on this route, which are running almost full for the last two months. Read More – Vodafone Idea FPO Update: Big news regarding Vodafone Idea FPO, know these details before investing.

The journey of four hours by plane was completed in 25 minutes.

Abu Taide Khan, station manager of Alliance Air in Tezpur, told Bhaskar that if you go from Tezpur by Lilabari bus, the journey of 216 km takes 4 hours, whereas the air distance on this route is 147 km, which can be covered in 25 minutes by flight. is decided in.

The one-way fare for this journey is Rs 150. The flight fare on this route via Kolkata is Rs 450. Ever since low-cost airlines started operating here, occupancy has gone up to 95%.

Northeast Udan…73 airstrips from 5 states joined the scheme

'Udaan', which started in 2017, has received good response in the North-East. 73 airstrips of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal and Sikkim are connected to this scheme. Alliance Air, Flybig, Indigo are providing services here. Under this scheme, a direct flight from Imphal to Shillong was started in 2021.

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Airport Authority of India officials said that to make the fares affordable on this route, Viability Gap Funding (VGF) is being given to the airlines under the UDAN scheme. This compensates the company for its loss in basic fare.