TruJet commences daily operations from Belagavi on 3 routes under RCS-UDAN

by Suman Gupta

New Delhi, January 2020: TruJet commenced the daily flight operations from Belagavi to Tirupati, Mysuru & Hyderabad route under the RCS-UDAN scheme of Government of India. TruJet was awarded the Belagavi-Tirupati-Belagavi-Mysuru-Belagavi-Hyderabad-Belagavi routes under the RCS-UDAN-3 bidding process last year. The airline will be operating daily flights from Belagavi airport to Tirupati, Mysuru & Hyderabad respectively.

Due to the non-availability of direct flights from Belagavi to Tirupati, Mysuru & Hyderabad, people had to travel long hour journey to any of the aforementioned destinations. Prior to the commencement of flight operations from the Belagavi, the natives had the option to travel 18 hours long journey by train or travel 15 hours by road to reach Hyderabad. Similarly, natives had to travel 14 hours by train or suffer 16 hours long road journey to reach Tirupati from Belagavi. Furthermore, to reach Mysuru from Belagavi people had to bear an 11 hour journey by road or travel 13 hours journey by train. Now, natives can travel at ease to reach their desired destinations.

TruJet will operate 6 flights everyday & will deploy ATR 72(500), 72 seater luxury aircraft on this route. It currently operates 32 flights under RCS-UDAN, with the addition of Tirupati-Mysuru-Hyderabad there will be 38 flights under the umbrella of TruJet.

The Flight schedule is as below:

TruJet was awarded 12 new routes under UDAN 3. With the commencement of the Belagavi-Tirupati-Belagavi-Mysuru-Belagavi-Hyderabad-Belagavi, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has operationalized a total of 246 routes under RCS-UDAN.