by Ashok Raj
Panaji (Goa) [India]Jan 5 (ANI): The first commercial flight landed at the new Goa airport on Thursday morning.
Operations were started by IndiGo with a direct flight between Hyderabad-Goa and Delhi to the new Goa airport, making it the 76th domestic and 102nd overall destination in the 6E network.
Indigo will operate 168 weekly flights between Mopa and eight domestic destinations namely Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Jaipur and Ahmedabad, Indigo said.
The new network will meet the growing demand due to Goa’s popularity as a leisure travel destination and provide more choice to customers, making travel more affordable and direct connectivity to North Goa. The existing Goa Dabolim Airport, South Goa will remain operational, and IndiGo continues its existing operations there.
We are excited and proud to announce the opening of our biggest ever new station at the New North Goa International Airport at Mopa. Such a comprehensive debut is very important for us at IndiGo and speaks volumes of our ambition and endeavor to provide connectivity, accessibility and ever more choice to our customers in one of the most visited travel destinations of the country Is. IndiGo CEO Peter Albers said, “We stand by our promise of affordable fares, on-time delivery, courteous and hassle-free service, connecting people to the places they love.
Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Goa’s second international airport at Mopa in North Goa. The new international airport is located in the northern part of Goa, about 35 km from Panaji, the capital of Goa.
The airport’s busy location will provide travelers with easy access to nearby tourist attractions.
As a tribute to the late Manohar Parrikar, former Defense Minister and four-time Chief Minister of Goa, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave ex-post facto approval for renaming the greenfield International Airport Mopa in Goa as ‘Manohar International Airport – Mopa, Goa’. ,
Earlier airlines like IndiGo and GoFirst have already announced plans to start 168 and 42 flights respectively from the new airport. (ANI)
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