AIE changes schedule, passengers complain of inconvenience

September 7, 2013

Mangalore, Sep 7: A change in flight schedule of Air India Express has earned the wrath of the passengers. The change, which is considered to be inconvenient for the passengers will reportedly affect the business of the public sector airways company.

According to the decision of the government, from October 28 onward, Mangalore-Dubai Air India Express flight IX 383 will leave Mangalore at 8.55am and reach Dubai at 11.20am (Current timing departure at 2.00pm from Mangalore and arrival at Dubai is 4.10pm).

The IX 813 will leave Mangalore at 11.15pm and reach Dubai at 1.40am (Current-departure from Mangalore at 8.00pm and arrival at Dubai- 10.15pm).

IX 814 Dubai-Mangalore leave from Dubai- 2.20am and arrival at Mangalore is 7.25am (Current timings- 4.25am departure and arrival at Mangalore is 9.55am.).

Currently, the flight 9W532 of Jet Airways departs from Mangalore at 11.05pm and arrives Dubai 1.20am. According to Jet Airways website, their schedule will be changed and the flight 9W532 will depart from Mangalore at 8pm and reach Dubai at 10.25pm, which is a convenient timing for passengers.

The passengers say that the new schedule of Air India Express flight to Dubai will cause inconvenience to commuters from distant places. With the change the passengers living in far away places have to start at wee hours to board the flight and obviously, the passengers will stop taking the inconvenient option, which will definitely affect the business of the airlines.

With this many of the passengers say that the Air India authorities should review the decision.

However, Air India station manager Sudheer Bhat said that the airways keep changing the schedule every six months, ie during summer the schedule is changed from March and for winter the schedule is changed from October.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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