APATA leaders meet Odisha Governor, thank him for new flight to Vizag
A delegation of the Andhra Pradesh Air Travellers' Association (APATA) met Odisha Governor K. Haribabu at the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday and thanked him for his role in facilitating a new IndiGo flight between Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam by coordinating with the Odisha government to secure Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support.
Flight 6E 6214 will commence operations from June 12. It will land in Visakhapatnam at 1.55 p.m. and take off from Visakhapatnam at 2.25 p.m.
Starting June 13, IndiGo flight 6E 1443 will connect Visakhapatnam to Abu Dhabi, operating four days a week – Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. This marks a significant boost to air connectivity from Vizag and Andhra Pradesh, according to a statement issued by APATA leaders O. Naresh Kumar and D.S. Varma.
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