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The Central authorities aims to democratise aerial travel, and mounting up of Udan Yatri Cafes successful airports crossed the state is simply a measurement successful that direction, said Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu.
Addressing the media aft opening a Udan Yatri Cafe astatine the Vijayawada airdrome connected September 29, Monday, the Minister said aft the motorboat of UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) strategy successful 2016, much than 630 routes person been added to the existing ones crossed the country, facilitating much aerial question betwixt tier-2 and tier-3 cities and making aerial question accessible to communal people.
“As galore radical from little income groups are travelling by air, we began focussing connected providing each indispensable services to them astatine airports,” Mr. Rammohan Naidu said, recalling that the conception of Udan Yatri Cafe was thought of aft receiving antagonistic feedback from radical astir exorbitant prices of nutrient astatine airports.
The archetypal cafe was acceptable up astatine the Kolkata airdrome successful December 2024. The cafe, wherever a cupful of beverage is priced astatine ₹10 and java ₹20, received bully effect from people. Such cafes person been acceptable up astatine the airports successful Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Itanagar, and Pune, helium said.
“The authorities intends to unfastened these cafes successful the airports crossed the state successful a phased manner,” the Minister said, adding that the installation would spell a agelong mode successful serving the passengers.
Later, the Minister announced that an planetary formation to Singapore from Vijayawada would beryllium commenced soon. There volition beryllium flights connecting Vijayawada to cities similar Ahmedabad, Varanasi and Pune.
The enactment connected the New Integrated Terminal Building (NITB) astatine the Vijayawada airdrome would beryllium completed successful 3 months, and erstwhile done, the airdrome volition person the capableness to grip much fig of passengers, Mr. Rammohan Naidu said.
Vijayawada MP Kesineni Sivanath, who was present, praised the Union Minister for improving connectivity to airports successful Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier, the Union Minister and others participated successful a histrion plantation programme connected the premises.
Airport Director M. Lakshmi Kantha Reddy and Airport Authority of India Board members took portion successful the programme.
