Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has announced that it has sanctioned the starting of commercial flights from Mumbai to Nashik. 

According to the sources, the service to be operated by Kingfisher airlines is expected to commence by the end of this month.

While commenting on the approval, Mr.Prakash V Deshmukh, managing director of HAL stated, “We have given approval to operate the flight from our Ojhar airport near Nashik and the first flight may take off around October 25.” 

The ATR-42 type aircraft to be operated for the proposed flights is capable of carrying around 40 passengers.  

The officials of HAL said that they are also following up with Kingfisher to divert their recently launched Mumbai-Nanded-Latur flight via Nashik so that more passengers could be accommodated.

HAL is building new parking lots for aircraft and would charge users.