Amid Covid19 pandemic, a good news for the people of lower Assam as the direct flight service between Rupsi Airport to Guwahati and Kolkata is all set to begin on May 8.

As per available information, the newly launched domestic airlines ‘FLYBIG’ will start its operation in the Northeast region from May 8 and initially, the flight service will connect Rupsi, Guwahati and Kolkata Airports and in due course, other destinations of the Northeast will be covered.

On Wednesday, Flybig Airlines conducted a successful trial of its flight at Rupsi Airport. Notably, the civil aviation ministry recently included Rupsi Airport along with 78 routes under Udan 4.0 Bonanza to North East under Act East Policy with an objective that ‘SAB UDEN SAB JUDEN’.

Rupsi Airport which was built during the World War -II has to restart its operations after a gap of about 38 years.

The revival work of this much awaited Rupsi Airport of lower Assam was completed a year ago in record period of 14 months and for the extraordinary work, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) Engineers Guild conferred the Rupsi Airport with ‘Sir Visvesvaraya Award’ on Engineering Day celebration for Excellent Services in Engineering during a programme held in New Delhi last year.