Tag: Jeypore Airport

The Director General of Civil Aviation on Thursday provided license to the Jeypore Airport in Odisha's Koraput.The airport has been allowed by the central agency to carry out commercial flight operations.

This license authorises the aerodrome to be used as regular place of landing and departure to all persons on equal terms and conditions for operation by aircraft requiring specifications of runway and associated facilities including granted exemptions

Ulaka visited Jeypore Municipality to review various ongoing development projects in the city.

The airstrip built in the 1960s was used during the visit of ministers or VIPs to the town. In the 1980s Vayudoot operated flights from the airstrip. But the service was stopped after crash of a flight.

Jeypore: Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation Usha Padhee, reviewed the construction work of Jeypore airstrip in Koraput district under the UDAN scheme on Sunday. According to sources, Padhee along with Koraput collector K Sudarshan Chakraborty and Road & Housing Development department Engineer reached Jeypore and inspected the construction work of the airstrip. […]

Koraput: Uncertainty looms over regular flight operations at the Jeypore airstrip in Koraput as the district administration has not received any response on their application for license from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The airstrip was recently renovated by the district administration. While the runway, air traffic control and terminal building have been […]

Jeypore: As wait for regular commercial flight services from Jeypore Airport under the Centre’s UDAN scheme continues to get delayed, voice of dissent in the local communities grows louder. According to sources, even though the runway, air traffic, terminal building and other facilities of the airport have been completed, Jeypore airport is yet to receive […]

Jeypore/Rourkela: Even though Odisha government is maintaining as many as 20 airstrips for regional air connectivity purposes, operation of flight services is yet to materialise in all the airstrips except Bhubaneswar and Jharsuguda. Thanks to official apathy, two such airstrips – Jeypore and Rourkela have remained non-functional despite a well prepared runway, air traffic control […]