{"id":381157,"date":"2020-10-29T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381157"},"modified":"2020-10-29T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:11:22","slug":"spicejet-to-launch-seaplane-service-between-ahmedabad-and-state-of-unity-from-october-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-to-launch-seaplane-service-between-ahmedabad-and-state-of-unity-from-october-31\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet to launch seaplane service between Ahmedabad and State of Unity from October 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Low cost carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday announced the launch of its seaplane service between Ahmedabad (Sabarmati riverfront) and the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat. The flights will be operated by SpiceJet\u2019s fully-owned subsidiary, Spice Shuttle using a 15-seater Twin Otter 300 aircraft, said the airline adding that it has secured 18 seaplane routes under UDAN.<br \/>\nThe airline will operate two daily flights on the Ahmedabad-Kevadia route from October 31. with all-inclusive one-way fares starting from Rs 1,500 (tickets on www.spiceshuttle.com from October 30) SpiceJet will be using a 15-seater Twin Otter 300 aircraft for these flights. Flights will depart Ahmedabad at 10.15 am and 12.45 am daily. The return flight will be at 11.45 am and 3.15 pm respectively. Seaplanes have the ability to land and take-off from water thus offering access to areas that do not have landing strips or runways.<br \/>\nThe launch flight is scheduled to operate on Saturday, 31 October in honour of the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. &#8220;The aircraft will depart from the Sabarmati Riverfront, Ahmedabad at 10:15 am and will reach the Statue of Unity, Kevadia at 10:45 am,&#8221; said the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Low cost carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday announced the launch of its seaplane service between Ahmedabad (Sabarmati riverfront) and the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat. The flights will be operated by SpiceJet\u2019s fully-owned subsidiary, Spice Shuttle using a 15-seater Twin Otter 300 aircraft, said the airline adding that it has secured 18 seaplane routes under UDAN. The airline will operate two daily flights on the Ahmedabad-Kevadia route from October 31. with all-inclusive one-way fares starting from Rs 1,500 (tickets on www.spiceshuttle.com from October 30) SpiceJet will be using a 15-seater Twin Otter 300 aircraft for these flights. Flights will [&hellip;]<\/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-381157","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\/381157","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=381157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}