Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (MB)
with Rajesh Sequeira from Dubai
Mangalore, Jul 16: As what can be regarded as a further step closer to seeing international flighs land at the Bajpe airport here, Air India has deposited the requisite amount for the sake of setting up its facilities to handle Air India Express flights.
Speaking to Daijiworld, airport sources said according to existing plan, the check-in counter and the duty manager's office should be ready in a few days.
With the union government having accorded Mangalore status of a customs airport and with the police personnel having undergone training in immigration formalities etc. everything except the landing of regular flights appears to be in place.
An airline official told this correspondent that the regular cancellation and diversion of flights destined to Mangalore owing to heavy rains might have dampened the tempo of early introductions of international flights.
Expressing their serious apprehensions, some regularly travelling Gulf-bound passengers said that there was some lobby, possibly of Mangalore-Mumbai bus operators or even domestic airlines, working against early introduction of direct flights to the Gulf, as it would affect their cash registers.
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