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Trujet launches flights on 3 new routes under ‘UDAN’ scheme

Trujet launches flights on 3 new routes under 'UDAN' scheme

TIL Desk/Business/Hyderabad/ Trujet, a regional airline, announced the launch of services on three new routes starting from Thursday under the regional connectivity scheme ‘UDAN’. The city-based carrier will launch flights on Hyderabad-Cuddapah, Hyderabad-Nanded and Nanded-Mumbai routes, the airline said in a statement here.

Trujet is one of the five operators who have been awarded 128 routes under the UDAN ((Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme of the government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the first flight under the scheme on the Shimla-Delhi route on April 27. The flight will be operated by Alliance Air, the regional arm of Air India.

Under the scheme, fares have been capped at Rs 2,500 for one hour flight and the government has also extended subsidy in the form of viability gap funding to the operators flying on these routes. Trujet will be the only carrier to operate flights on these three sectors starting from April 27, the release said.

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