Daily flights to Sharjah from Trichy (Aug 21)
Air India has announced that its flight from Sharjah to Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchi and Chennai (IC 968) would be operated via Tiruchi on all seven days a week from August 21 onwards.
The airline had increased the frequency of Chennai-Tiruchi-Thiruvananthapuram-Sharjah flights to make it a daily flight from March 30. However, the return flights (IC 968) were skipping Tiruchi on three days a week owing to the manpower shortage in the Central Industrial Security Force unit at the airport here.
In return direction too
With the recent augmentation of strength of the CISF unit, the airline has made the flights a daily service in the return direction too.
The flights will arrive at Tiruchi at 4.10 a.m., from Sharjah/Thiruvananthapuram and leave for Chennai at 5 a.m., according to a press release from T.H. Radhakrishnan, Station Manager, Air India.
Shuttle bus service
Meanwhile, a delegation representing the Airline Operators Committee called on Transport Minister K.N.Nehru on Wednesday to request him to introduce an air-conditioned shuttle bus-service from the Airport to the city at least during the flight timings.
Mr.Radhakrishnan, who heads the committee, told The Hindu that the Minister instructed the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation officials to take steps to introduce the service at the earliest.
The airline had increased the frequency of Chennai-Tiruchi-Thiruvananthapuram-Sharjah flights to make it a daily flight from March 30. However, the return flights (IC 968) were skipping Tiruchi on three days a week owing to the manpower shortage in the Central Industrial Security Force unit at the airport here.
In return direction too
With the recent augmentation of strength of the CISF unit, the airline has made the flights a daily service in the return direction too.
The flights will arrive at Tiruchi at 4.10 a.m., from Sharjah/Thiruvananthapuram and leave for Chennai at 5 a.m., according to a press release from T.H. Radhakrishnan, Station Manager, Air India.
Shuttle bus service
Meanwhile, a delegation representing the Airline Operators Committee called on Transport Minister K.N.Nehru on Wednesday to request him to introduce an air-conditioned shuttle bus-service from the Airport to the city at least during the flight timings.
Mr.Radhakrishnan, who heads the committee, told The Hindu that the Minister instructed the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation officials to take steps to introduce the service at the earliest.
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