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Deccan Shuttles Launches Regional Service for India’s Gujarat State
Deccan Shuttles’ Grand Caravan connects small industrial cities.
Deccan Shuttles’ Grand Caravan connects small industrial cities.

The western Indian state of Gujarat has what amounts to its first regional airline with the launch of Deccan Shuttles by G.R. Gopinath, who founded India’s first low-cost airline, Air Deccan, before selling it to Kingfisher Airlines. Scheduled operations started on August 27 using a pair of nine-seat Cessna 208B Grand Caravans. The turboprop singles ply the Ahmedabad-Surat-Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad-Kandla routes, marking the first-ever direct air service between provincial cities in this large state. Gopinath, himself a former airline captain, plans to extend the model to northeast India and some regions in the south of the country.

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