Paramount’s 3rd Madurai-Chennai service
Paramount Airways will launch its third Madurai-Chennai service with a link to Hyderabad from Friday.
Talking to newspersons here last night, M Thiagarajan, managing director of the airways, said here that the airways would offer 50 per cent discount on full fare to senior citizens and disabled passengers. Travel for disabled children below 12 years would be free, he said.
A special group rate for college and school students would be given shortly under a scheme by which one ticket would be given free for every group of 10 students, he said.
The airline aimed to operate 56 flights from next month against the 24 flights it was operating now.
It planned to introduce flights between Tirupati and Visakhapatnam in October and Madurai-Bangalore flight from November. It also planned to connect prime destinations in south India. “We will concentrate on south and then move to north. In a year or two, we will be able to do that”, he said.
Thiagarajan requested the Tamil Nadu and Kerala governments to reduce the sales tax on aviation turbine fuel to make air travel cheaper.