Since May 14, with only one flight to Bengaluru which will also stop from July 1, the SaveIXG group which includes an array of people from various backgrounds from frequent fliers, industrialists, Bankers, Social workers, today met Shri Suresh Prabhuji, Minister for commerce, industry and Civil Aviation and Shri Anant Kumar Hegdeji, Minster of state for skill development at New Delhi.
Sachin Sabnis and Parag Bhandare of the SaveIXG campaign met with Shri Suresh Prabhuji, Minister for commerce, industry and Civil Aviation and presented him the memorandum received from all the associations from the city and requested him to restore the flights to Belagavi Airport. The minister has assured that they are working on the same and will do the needful at earliest.
After this they also had meeting with Shri Anant Kumar Hegdeji, Minster of state for skill development at his residence in New Delhi and discussed about restoration of flights from Belagavi Airport. He immediately called Shri Jayant Sinhaji, Minister of state for Aviation and he promised that Air India will start three operations from Belagavi very soon. The flights would be Belagavi-Mumbai, Belagavi-Bangalore, Belagavi-Chennai.
Well done by meeting the right people.
Persistence is the only way to get the things done. Hope for the best.
Sincere efforts! Hope the meeting bears fruits!! The assurance should be a reality soon.
Keep up with the race focusing on the finish line, quitting is not an option here. Our community deserves best transportation system. Thanks to everyone those who are involved in this project.
Also best transportation include double railway track with good connectivity for long distance express and fast trains.
well done friends..in fact belgsum deserves more flights bcoz of its multi speciality nature..and more over all 5 flights were going full daily ..i travelled many times..nice efforts..hubli airport has no passengers..only political lobby has worked in hubli..
A good initiative by Parag and team. We do hope all the efforts put in will yield good results.
Thanks for the group….hope to see direct flights to chennai and mumbai.
THANKS for restoring the flights from Belgaum bcoz Belgaum people’s facing the problem when they diverted flights to Hubbali ,we hope soon we’ll see more flights from Belgaum city