Made-in-India Dornier airplane takes off for first business flight

Alliance Air’s made-in-India Dornier 228 plane was deployed for its first business flight on the Dibrugarh-Pasighat route on Tuesday with Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kiren Rijiju on board.

Accompanied by senior authorities officers, Scindia and Rijiju boarded the flight on the Mohanbari airport in Asssam’s Dibrugarh for Pasighat in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.

Taking off for Passighat ! pic.twitter.com/ZcxxiHAQEF

— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) April 12, 2022

The state-run Alliance Air grew to become the nation’s first business airline to fly an Indian-made plane for civil operations. Till now, Dornier 228 planes have been utilized by the armed forces solely.

Alliance Air had in February signed an settlement with the government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to lease two 17-seater Dornier 228 plane. The airline obtained its first Dornier 228 airplane on April 7.

Regular flight operations are slated to start out from April 18 on the Dibrugarh-Pasighat-Lilabari-Dibrugarh route.

The companies will probably be additional expanded to Tezu, Mechuka, Ziro and Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh with the Dibrugarh airport because the hub station.

The companies will probably be operated by Alliance Air beneath regional connectivity scheme UDAN.