Family of 4 charters Airbus A320 from Bhopal to Delhi
Bhopal airport is named after a famous king, Raja Bhoj. When domestic schedule and charter flights were allowed on Monday, it saw a high net worth family charter an Indian carrier’s Airbus A320 to fly just four people — wife, two children and a nanny — to Delhi. A west India-based company had chartered this 180-seater aircraft. Industry insiders say it may have cost about Rs 10 lakh. The aircraft took off from Delhi at 9.05am as a ferry flight — meaning crew only — on Monday and reached Bhopal at 10.30am. It took off with the four on board at 11.30am and reached Delhi at 12.55pm. Since the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), the single biggest operating cost for a flight in India, is very low at the moment, airlines and charter companies are able to offer decent rates which the germaphobe HNIs/corporates don’t mind paying for their selves or their loved ones,” according to an airline official.