Chennai’s air connectivity with Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka resumed on Thursday after more than three decades with an Alliance Air flight taking off from the city’s airport, officials said. The air connectivity was suspended in 1984 after the outbreak of civil war in the island nation.
According to the Indian High Commission in Colombo, a team of delegates including Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) CS Subbaiyah were on board the first flight which left for Jaffna from Chennai at 8.55 am.
The official passenger service between Chennai and Jaffna will start from November 1. The tariff for this one-way trip has been fixed as Rs 3999, including taxes.
