Bhubaneswar Dec 19 : Air Odisha on Friday successfully conducted the trial run of Bhubaneswar –Rourkela-Sambalpur flight.
A nine-seater Sexna Carbon 208b took off from Biju Patnaik International Airport at about 12.15 pm and successfully landed in Rourkela at about 2.20 pm and took off to Sambalpur at about 3 pm to land there after an hour and twenty minutes.
Director of Air Odisha (Operations) informed that the service will regularly operate from this month end linking Bhubaneswar, Rourkela and Sambalpur. After the start of operations, the aircraft will go to five destinations every day from Bhubaneswar and the carrier will engage 25 employees, including an engineer, at each destination.
According to the carrier’s flying plans, it will go to Jharsuguda en route Sambalpur in the morning. It will leave Jharsuguda for Bhubaneswar after a half -hour halt. It will take off for Rourkela en route Angul in the afternoon. It will then fly to Jeypore and return to Bhubaneswar, the Air Odisha official said.
