{"id":383275,"date":"2020-11-09T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383275"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:24:02","slug":"darbhanga-airport-begins-op-in-connectivity-boost-for-mithila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/darbhanga-airport-begins-op-in-connectivity-boost-for-mithila\/","title":{"rendered":"Darbhanga airport begins op in connectivity boost for Mithila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Darbhanga airport in north Bihar began operations on Sunday, meeting the long-standing demand of the people of the Mithila region who had to travel for hours to Patna to catch a flight. <\/p>\n<p>As the first flight, operated by Spicejet, landed at the airport from Bengaluru, it was given the customary water salute, while the passengers were greeted with &#8221;Mithila Paags&#8221; (a traditional cap) and garlands.<\/p>\n<p>The plane then took off for Delhi with 180 passengers, including Darbhanga&#8221;s BJP MP Gopaljee Thakur, Darbhanga Town legislator Sanjay Saraogi and MLC Dilip Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>Darbhanga will be connected by flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>People of the region will save at least four-five hours travelling to and from Patna with the airport beginning operations, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Darbhanga airport in north Bihar began operations on Sunday, meeting the long-standing demand of the people of the Mithila region who had to travel for hours to Patna to catch a flight. As the first flight, operated by Spicejet, landed at the airport from Bengaluru, it was given the customary water salute, while the passengers were greeted with &#8221;Mithila Paags&#8221; (a traditional cap) and garlands. The plane then took off for Delhi with 180 passengers, including Darbhanga&#8221;s BJP MP Gopaljee Thakur, Darbhanga Town legislator Sanjay Saraogi and MLC Dilip Chaudhary. Darbhanga will be connected by flights to Delhi, Mumbai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383275","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}