The people of Belgaum are known to be extremely tolerant towards the lax attitude of the political leaders whose apathy towards the development of the city, has, over the years, resulted in Belgaum becoming a massive village. All rhetoric of it being a booming metro city falls flat with the lack of basic infrastructure. If [...]
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IXG the code by which Sambra, Belgaum is known to the world in the aviation industry now has been non operational for commercial use from November 20, 2011. After the chaos at Kingfisher airlines it first made clarifications, “ All ATR aircraft will continue to operate in a single configuration as a Kingfisher Class full [...]
View PostUnaccounted gold and gold ornaments weighing to the tune of about 23.46 kgs which is worth more than Rs.5,69,80,158 was seized by the security staff at the Sambra airport. Also a sum of Rs.25,62,480 was recovered to which the three persons carrying the same could not give any documentary evidence of the same as to [...]
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5 kilo grams of Gold ornaments worth Rs.1 crore 35 lakhs were seized by the security staff of the Sambra Airport from Mukesh Solanki a resident of Mumbai. Mukesh Solanki was there to catch his flight to Mumbai when during checking it was found that he had gold ornaments and when asked to produce documents [...]
View PostAfter intelligence reports that the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai could be targeted by small planes flying in from cities like Hubli, the security at Sambra Airport has been beefed up, police sources said. 30 police personnel have been trained for any kind of emergency and about 150 odd personnel have been identified who [...]
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The recent mishap at the Mangalore airport has made the people, the government and the airlines as well to think at the airports Tier-II cities like Mangalore, Mysore, Hassan and Belgaum. Civil aviation experts say that government has neglected these tier II cities and have foucused more on lucrative metro airports. Take Mysore for example, [...]
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On May 15 the newly built Mysore airport is said to be inaugurated by the Union minister of state for civil aviation Praful Patel. But as an irony no airline is ready to fly from there. All major private airlines, including national carrier Air India, have declined invitations to fly to the newly-built airport in [...]
View PostIt has been over a year now that the Sambra(IXG) Belgaum airport is being lying un-utilized for commercial flights. The airport has been or its terminal has been upgraded recently and run way will be expanded in some time. Lets see at its glorifying history. Time line: 1942- The Royal Air Force (RAF) established its [...]
View PostI had mailed the Kingfisher airlines asking an explanation as to why the flights have been cancelled from Belgaum. Here is the Reply I got – “Dear Uday, With regards to your email, we would like to inform you that due to operational reason flight Bangalore to Belgaum is cancelled from 17th June 2009. For [...]
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Yes this has happened again to Belgaum, the only Kingfisher flight from Belgaum to Bangalore will stop flying from 17th June 2009. I am saying this as the website is not accepting any bookings after that date. In addition, the booking agents have been told that there would be no flights after 16 June. Mumbai [...]
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Work on expansion of the Belgaum airport which had headed into rough weather due to trouble over land acquisition, has picked up pace over the last few months. The government has been able to acquire all the 298 acres around the airport required to upgrade it and is ready to hand them over to [...]
View PostThe Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel informed the Parliament (Rajya Sabha) today. AAI proposes to spend an amount of Rs.12434.34 crores, during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) for development of airport infrastructure in the country, which includes Metro airports as well as non-metro airports. An expenditure of Rs. 6443.53 [...]
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