{"id":390208,"date":"2020-12-18T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390208"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:34:25","slug":"flying-high-blades-kia-to-electronics-city-heli-service-by-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-high-blades-kia-to-electronics-city-heli-service-by-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying high: BLADE\u2019s KIA to Electronics City heli-service by February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic-time travel is literally hitting the skies but in exclusive, private packages.<\/p>\n<p>Riding this trend, BLADE India is all set to launch a heli-charter service in Karnataka from December 18. The helicopters will initially fly between Bengaluru and Kodagu, Kabini, Chikkamagaluru and Hampi. But the aviation firm has bigger plans for Bengaluru, including a service connecting Electronics City and HAL Airport with the Kempegowda International Airport, the company\u2019s managing director Amit Dutta told DH. This service could start sometime in mid-February, 2021, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The city service will replicate BLADE USA\u2019s heli-link between New York City and the airport. \u201cLooking at Bengaluru\u2019s big potential for growth in this sector, we will initially start with one or two helicopters and increase the fleet as demand picks up,\u201d Dutta explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic-time travel is literally hitting the skies but in exclusive, private packages. Riding this trend, BLADE India is all set to launch a heli-charter service in Karnataka from December 18. The helicopters will initially fly between Bengaluru and Kodagu, Kabini, Chikkamagaluru and Hampi. But the aviation firm has bigger plans for Bengaluru, including a service connecting Electronics City and HAL Airport with the Kempegowda International Airport, the company\u2019s managing director Amit Dutta told DH. This service could start sometime in mid-February, 2021, he said. The city service will replicate BLADE USA\u2019s heli-link between New York City and the airport. \u201cLooking [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390208","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=390208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}