NEW DELHI: The seaplane that will be used for starting flights between Ahmedabad\u2019s Sabarmati riverfront and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel\u2019s Stature of Unity in Kevadia from October 31 \u2014 the iron man\u2019s birth anniversary \u2014 is on its way to India.
\nA 15-seater DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft of Maldivian Aero, the country\u2019s national airline, has taken off from Male on Sunday and will reach Ahmedabad on Monday after two transit halts at Kochi and Goa.
\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi \u2014 who famously took a seaplane from Ahmedabad in 2017 \u2014 will inaugurate this service.
\n\u201cFor India\u2019s first seaplane project, we had to turn to the experts in the field! The seaplane operations will take off with the assistance of Maldivian Aero (seaplane), pilots & crew! We thank the government of Maldives and Maldivian Aero for their support,\u201d the High Commission of India in Maldives tweeted on Sunday.
\nA DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft of Maldivian Aero (it has 11 of those planes which joined its fleet in January2018) took off for India from Male on Sunday. The aircraft will reaching Ahmedabad on Monday after two transit halts at Cochin and Goa, according to aviation ministry JS Usha Padhee.
\nSpiceJet will use this leased aircraft to operate eight daily flights with a ticket price of about Rs 4,800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The seaplane that will be used for starting flights between Ahmedabad\u2019s Sabarmati riverfront and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel\u2019s Stature of Unity in Kevadia from October 31 \u2014 the iron man\u2019s birth anniversary \u2014 is on its way to India. A 15-seater DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft of Maldivian Aero, the country\u2019s national airline, has taken off from Male on Sunday and will reach Ahmedabad on Monday after two transit halts at Kochi and Goa. Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u2014 who famously took a seaplane from Ahmedabad in 2017 \u2014 will inaugurate this service. \u201cFor India\u2019s first seaplane project, we had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}