Top Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the much-awaited Donyi Polo Airport in Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar nowadays. The airport makes historical past within the books of Arunachal Pradesh’s aviation sector since it’s the first-ever greenfield airport in any northeastern state. The Donyi Polo airport is positioned at Hollongi and it’s going to push the connectivity, business, and tourism in hilly northeastern states. After inaugurating the brand new greenfield airport PM Modi will depart for Varanasi after which to Gujarat from there. The governor, who has been tracking the development of the airport since its basis laying rite, stated that it is likely one of the absolute best presents to the folk of the state via Modi.
Value of the Donyi Polo Airport
The Donyi Polo airport has been evolved via the Airports Authority of India at an estimated price of Rs 645 crore. It is going to have 8 check-in counters and will accommodate 200 passengers all the way through height hours, the officers stated.
Unfold over a 4,100 sq m house, Donyi Polo airport will probably be supplied with all trendy amenities for passengers. It is going to have a 2,300 meter-long runway appropriate for touchdown and take-off of Boeing 747, the officers stated. The airport terminal development has a passenger front room, airside amenities, and the general public assembly venue. There are a couple of complex touchdown grounds within the state, together with in Pasighat and Tezu.
Flight services and products on the Donyi Polo airport
IndiGo Airways will begin industrial flights from the airport on November 28. The naming of the airport displays the reverence of the indigenous other people of Arunachal for the solar (Donyi) and the moon (Polo). Flights connecting Hollongi, which is round 15 km from Itanagar, with Mumbai and Kolkata will perform day by day barring Wednesday. A weekly flight provider connecting Hollongi with Kolkata on Wednesdays will start on December 3, the executive technique and income officer of IndiGo, Sanjay Kumar had stated not too long ago.
That is consistent with the service’s imaginative and prescient to strengthen connectivity within the Northeast and the flights are designed to cater to industry and recreational travellers who’re repeatedly in search of new and reasonably priced flying choices to get right of entry to locations which are recognized for his or her vacationer points of interest, he stated.
But even so IndiGo, Flybig airways have additionally expressed pastime in beginning flight services and products from Donyi Polo airport, AAI Common Supervisor Dilip Kumar Sajnani stated.