Private air taxi service between Bihar and Jharkhand commented today with a three-seater chartered plane making the first trip form Ranchi to Patna.
Spirit Air Pvt.Ltd., a Luck-now-based private air-taxi service provider, entered into an agreement with DTDS Travel and Tour Planner Pvt Ltd, to begin its service on Airport Authority of India’s controlled airports such as Ranchi, Gaya and Patna.
Spirit Air has named its service provider company as ‘Indian Air Taxi’.
“We have started our air taxi service on the Ranchi – Gaya – Patna route from today…One person chartered the craft from Ranchi to Patna .For this, we have entered into an agreement with DTDS for one month,”Mr G.C.Biswas,Associate Vice-President (Marketing),told PTI.
FLIGHT SCHEDULE
Mr.Biswass said it would be DTDS’s responsibility to book Spirit Air’s three-seater Cessna 172 Sky Hawk aircraft for one month and after which it would re-assess the business performance and decide whether or not to continue with the agreement.
The flight service would operate on three days – Monday, Thursday and Saturday – a week, Mr Biswas said.
The aircraft would leave Ranchi at 9 am, and reach Gaya at 10 a.m. The flight would halt for half an hour in Gaya and then depart for Patna at 10:30 am and reach here at 11:00 a.m.
FARES
The fare for the one-hour flight between Ranchi and Gaya would be Rs 3.395 per person whereas the half-an-hour flight from Gaya to Patna would cost Rs.2, 290, Mr Biswas said.
Earlier, air –taxi operator Spirit was scheduled to commence its commercial service from April 10 but it failed to materialize then due to several reasons.
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