International flights from January 2022 likely: Pune airport director

Pune: No commercial international flight has operated at Pune’s Lohegaon airport from March 2020. That could change from January 2022.

“Once the full fledged operations start at the airport (December 1), there is a possibility that airlines will be given consent for international flights. Nothing yet has been finalised, but we are hoping that international flight operations may start from January 2022,” said Santosh Dhoke, airport director.

The offical Twitter handle of the Lohegaon airport is already getting queries for flights to Dubai.

Regular flyer Bihan Sarkar said, “Travelling becomes easy when a flight is available from Pune, we fly to Dubai once in a year. I hope flights start again, due to Covid I have not travelled since last two years.”