Ghaziabad: : After massive reduction of flight services, Star Air will operate flight services to Mundra in Gujarat.Star Air — which reduced flight services from 21 to 12 and now eight — is currently operating on Adampur (Punjab) and Nanded (Maharashtra) routes. By the end of this month, it will introduce the new destination, which will operate on all seven days, officials said. An official from Star Air said, “We planned to operate on Mundra route from April 25, but due to some work going on at Mundra, we had to postpone it till a further date. We are in talks with the Mundra airport officials.”“Star Air will operate operations from the Hindon civil terminal to Mundra in Gujarat from April 29,” Hindon Civil Terminal director Chilka Mahesh said, adding, “We have been informed that the Kishangarh route, on which the air carrier stopped operating, will commence operations by the end of this month.”This curtailment of flights from the terminal has brought down the footfalls from a peak of 6,000 per hour to just between 2,000 and 2,200 per hour.On Nov 6, 2019, Star Air commenced operations from Hindon Civil Terminal to Hubli. On Nov 18, 2019, it introduced services to Kalburgi. But since Jan 2023, the services on both routes were suspended. But from March 31, 2024, Star Air commenced flights connecting Hindon to Nanded and Adampur, which is still continuing.Apart from Star Air, IndiGo is the only carrier that is operating from Hindon Civil Terminal. As of now, it is operating on Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Navi Mumbai and Varanasi routes.Air India Express last year introduced operations on 10 routes — Kolkata, Goa, Jaipur, Chennai, Patna, Varanasi, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Jammu and Bengaluru routes. Between April and May, Air India Express commenced operations on these routes, and in a year, the carrier brought the operations to zero.
