Zoom Air to connect New Delhi to Surat and Bhavnagar in first phase of operations

Durgapur/New Delhi: Promoted by Zexus Air Services, India’s newest full service air operator Zoom air today started its operation with its first flight from Delhi to Durgapur. The operator has started flights from T3 terminal in Delhi to Amritsar, Durgapur and Koklata on daily basis. Commercial operations of India’s 12th operational domestic carrier ‘Zoom Air’ will start from February 15. Zoom Air would also operate flights to Amritsar, Surat and Bhavnagar from Delhi in the first phase of its operations with a fleet of three dry- leased CRJ 200LR planes. Two similar CRJ-200LR aircraft from Skyone FZE Aircraft leasing, UAE, under dry lease would join the fleet by April.This would take the total planes to five, a condition required under DGCA norms. The company envisages 18 to 20% year on growth on these underserved and un-served airports including Surat and Bhavnagar in Gujarat. Zoom Air plans to expand route network to destinations such as Tirupati, Vijaywada, Mumbai, Shillong, Aizawl, Pasighat and Zero (in Arunachal Pradesh), Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Indore and Bhopal, with a likely daily operations.