New Regional Airline ABC Airways India
 

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 1: ABC Airways, an aviation company based in Bangalore, has received the nod of Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to start its services from here.

The company will run two flights — one in the morning and another in the evening — between Bhubaneswar and Bangalore from January next year.

ABC Airways is a subsidiary of the Bangalore-based ABC Aviation and Training Services Private Limited. Promoter Rajesh Ebrahim is a commercial pilot and this will be a new venture.

“The private company is promoted by Rajesh Ebrahim will fly Embraer 170 aircraft to Bangalore and operations will start around January next year,” Biju Patnaik Airport director Sharad Kumar told The Telegraph.

The airline has three Embraer 170 aircraft in its fleet.

The news comes as relief to those who travel frequently between the two cities. They were worried about the air link between the two cities after a private airlines decided to stop its Bhubaneswar operations from October 27.

Satyabrata Swain, an IT professional based in Bangalore, said: “With the rise in the number of Odia IT professionals here and the opening of more IT development centres in Bhubaneswar, daily flights between the two cities are necessary.”

Debasish Mohapatra, a travel planner and consultant, said: “Bangalore is a major sector in the aviation route from the city. While the usual passenger load remains between 65 and 70 per cent on weekdays, the figure touches nearly 90 per cent on weekends. The new venture can be effective in the absence of any other operator after October 27.”

“We contacted the airport officials at Guwahati and Amritsar last week. Today, we met the director of Biju Patnaik Airport here and are really happy to get the co-operation and support from the AAI and the state government. Next week, we are going to meet airport officials of Patna, Surat and Lucknow,” managing director of ABC Airways Rajesh Ebrahim told The Telegraph.

“We will plan the flight schedule in such a way that people can leave Bhubaneswar in the morning, finish their work in Bangalore during the day and get back home in the evening. All our aircraft will have a seating capacity of 78,” he said.

Apart from Bhubaneswar, the airlines will also link other southern destinations from Bangalore. “We are going to have services to Pune and Goa from Bangalore in the near future,’’ he said.

However, Guwahati, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar and Surat routes will be given priority by the carrier because the cities have emerged as the new happening places in the aviation sector.

New airline to touch down

Article says airline already has 3 E170 a/c.where are they? Who's flying them currently?are they Indian reg?

expat captains where in the dgca 2 weeks ago getting their fata's, aircraft are rumoured to be in bangalore already

FATA is issued only when the AOP is obtained.

You are right the E170/190 expats were there for their FATAs but that is for
another operator.

Probably for Air Costa,they will start before end of this month with E170/190's

As rightly someone said in this forum "Applications are cheap to file but will never know whether it will launch". Let's hope and pray for the best all new startups gets airborne.

all i can say is, lots of encouraging news after many years of gloom.
i say bring it on, open up the sector. let the smaller jets like emb n let turbos fly to tier 2 n 3. y not?

yes they will need expats to start ops but they will all hire locals eventually as expats cost too much to be a permanent fixture.
and i am hoping that at least some will give freshers a chance.
i for one am tired of type rated recruitment fad started in the indian industry by one major airline.
its driving many youngsters to block more money coz they are not confident of competing with non tr freshers.
get ur basics straight, clear atpl writtens, then if u still feel u need a tr, then go for one.
i met type rated ppl in atpl vivas, who dont know basics of gpws,windshear and one airbus rated chick dint know wat canpa/cdfa was.

They have started hiring now
 

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