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Fly for as Low as Rs 150 with Regional Air Connectivity Scheme. (Consultant Picture)
There are 22 routes in India the place base airfares are lower than Rs 1,000. Some fares begin as little as Rs 150, encouraging regional air connectivity.
Shell out simply Rs 150 as base airfare and take a 50-minute flight from Lilabari to Tezpur.
Not simply this route, there are numerous extra flights the place the bottom ticket worth is lower than Rs 1,000.
All of them are operated beneath the regional air connectivity scheme that gives varied incentives for the airline operators.
In keeping with an evaluation shared by journey portal ixigo with PTI, there are not less than 22 routes the place the bottom airfares are lower than Rs 1,000 per individual, with the bottom being Rs 150 for flights connecting Lilabari and Tezpur in Assam. The most cost effective a method base fare is Rs 150 for a flight to and from Lilabari to Tezpur (Assam). The flights are operated by Alliance Air.
Whereas reserving a ticket, there will likely be addition of comfort cost to the bottom fare. Broadly, the length of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) flights on these routes are round 50 minutes.
Majority of the routes the place the bottom airfares vary between Rs 150 and Rs 199 per individual are within the North East. There are additionally routes within the South like Bangalore-Salem, Cochin-Salem the place the bottom ticket costs are on this vary, as per the evaluation. The bottom ticket worth is Rs 400 for flights to and from Guwahati and Shillong.
For Imphal-Aizawl, Dimapur-Shillong and Shillong-Lilabari flights, the airfare is Rs 500. Within the case of Bangalore-Salem flight, the bottom ticket worth is Rs 525. The evaluation confirmed that the bottom airfare for Guwahati-Pasighat flight is Rs 999 and it’s Rs 954 for Lilabari-Guwahati route.
These are among the many routes the place there’s a low demand and there are different transport choices to succeed in these locations in over 5 hours, in line with an business government. As many as 559 routes have been operationalised beneath the RCS also called UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) until March 31, 2024, as per the newest replace from the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
For RCS flights, varied incentives are prolonged by the central authorities, state governments and airport operators. Amongst others, there are not any touchdown or parking prices for these flights. The civil aviation ministry launched UDAN on October 21, 2016, with an goal to stimulate regional air connectivity and make air journey extra inexpensive.
