PUNE: While international flights from Pune to Dubai and Singapore were started on December 12 and December 13, 2005, respectively, following which, international flights to Oman and Bangkok, too, were started, Pune airport has been operating only one international flight since January 2022. As such, there has been growing demand to start flights to more overseas destinations.
On Friday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament (MP) from Pune, Girish Bapat, in his letter to Jyotiraditya Scindia, civil aviation minister, said, “There is only one international flight operated from Pune. Before Covid-19, there were more than four international flights operated from Pune. Being an MP from Pune, people have approached me to take up the matter with the civil aviation authority to start international flights from Pune to Singapore, Bangkok, East Asia, Europe and America.”
