Tepid take off for lone flight on Ludhiana-Delhi route, 11 arrive, just 5 leave on Day 1

Two months after the lone Air India flight between industrial hub Ludhiana and national capital Delhi resumed from Sahnewal domestic airport, it got a tepid response. While only eleven passengers arrived from Delhi in the 72-seater aircraft, just five boarded the return flight for Delhi.

This despite the fact that two leading trains between Ludhiana and Delhi — Amritsar Shatabdi and Swarna Shatabdi — are yet to resume operations.

The airport authorities at Sahnewal domestic airport of Ludhiana had already proposed to Air India to make the lone Ludhiana-Delhi flight six days a week as they were expecting a better response in absence of rail service. Currently the flight runs four days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday).