Star Air to improve Kalaburagi-Bengaluru flight to each day service from April 16

Star Air would improve its Kalaburagi-Bengaluru flight service from thrice weekly to each day efficient April 16, 2025.
| Photograph Credit score: ARUN KULKARNI

Following the go to of Shashikant Yakkarnall, Regional Gross sales Supervisor (South) of Star Air, to the workplace of the Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Trade (KKCCI) on April 9, the KKCCI president Sharanabasappa M. Pappa and secretary Shivaraj V. Inginshetty introduced that the corporate would improve its Kalaburagi-Bengaluru flight service from thrice weekly to each day efficient April 16.

In keeping with the office-bearers, the choice by the airline was a big transfer in boosting regional air connectivity and, thus, commerce and commerce actions within the area.

Shashikant Yakkarnall, Regional Gross sales Supervisor (South) of Star Air, being greeted by office-bearers of the Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Trade (KKCCI) in Kalaburagi on April 9, 2025.
| Photograph Credit score:
ARUN KULKARNI

“This enhancement is anticipated to tremendously profit enterprise travellers, vacationers, and most people by enhancing accessibility and comfort. The improve comes on the heels of a current assembly between the federal government of Karnataka, led by Infrastructure Growth Minister M.B. Patil and Rural Growth and Panchayat Raj and Data Know-how and Biotechnology Minister and Kalaburagi district in-charge Priyank Kharge, and personal airline operators. The discussions centered on addressing regional air connectivity challenges, together with these particular to Kalaburagi, marking a optimistic step towards bolstering the area’s air infrastructure. We had repeatedly raised issues in regards to the situation with the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation, Lok Sabha member from Kalaburagi, and the State Authorities, emphasising the necessity for higher hyperlinks to main locations and enhanced airport services,” a KKCCI office-bearer stated claiming that their efforts performed a pivotal position in highlighting the area’s connectivity gaps.

Whereas welcoming the resumption of each day flights to Bengaluru, KKCCI has additionally known as for the reinstatement of discontinued routes to New Delhi and Tirupati, which, they declare, are important for enterprise and non secular journey. Moreover, the KKCCI has proposed the introduction of latest air providers connecting Kalaburagi to Mumbai, Ahmedabad (through Surat), Rajasthan (Kishangarh), and Goa.

The KKCCI believes that these routes maintain immense potential for driving commerce, tourism, and total regional growth.

KKCCI president Sharanabasappa M. Pappa pressured on the significance of additional increasing the community to fulfill the area’s rising wants. “It is a step in the correct course, however our imaginative and prescient is to see Kalaburagi airport emerge as a key hub for each home and regional journey,” stated Mr. Pappa.