The Zoom Air flight between Delhi and Agra, which started this week, has given back hopes to the local tourism industry which was facing disappointment after the cancellation of its Agra-Khajuraho flight.
Although the flight has been started for only four days a week, running on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, the airline will soon be adding another flight between Agra and Jaisalmer.
With a flight between Agra and Jaipur already flying under the regional connectivity scheme, this will be the second flight connecting Agra to a city in Rajasthan.
However, the tourism industry has expressed dissatisfaction at the way the larger airlines have been treating Agra.
Rakesh Chauhan, President, Agra Hotel and Restaurants Association said that apart from Delhi, Agra also needs regular connectivity to other larger cities of the country like Mumbai and Kolkata as there is a lot of traffic from Agra to these places which has to be routed through Delhi.
A lot of cities in South India like Bengaluru, Hyderabad and even Goa need to be connected with Agra to take optimum advantage of the city’s travel potential.
He said that although Zoom Air has launched an Agra-Delhi flight, it is still to be seen if they will operate it regularly as in the past years. The people of Agra have seen many flights started from Agra, which did not continue past a few months.
Notably, Air Deccan had already been granted the No-Objection Certificate to start flights between Agra and Delhi and it had to start these flights from January 8, 2019, but that did not happen as Air Deccan pulled back after delaying the launch for several months.