`Air service from Salem will be feasible'

Salem: Flight service from Salem airport would be feasible, according to a survey by Sona School of Management. The institute carried out the survey to study the potential for the operation of flights from the Salem airport and to understand whether the A/C class travellers in train would be prospective customers of airlines.
A special survey team headed by the institute director D. Dhanabalan, which included David Rajesh and Nachimuthu as members, carried out exhaustive interviews with many travel/air-ticketing agents, cargo/courier booking agents and A/C class train travellers in Salem, Namakkal and Tiruchengode.The survey found out that there were 45 to 50 persons booking air tickets regularly with the travel agents from the Salem region in a day for domestic flights and three to five persons for international flights.
Air Deccan is planning to operate its services in the Salem-Chennai sector with a 48-seater aircraft from the first week of November.
13/09/06 The Hindu

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