Helicopter joy rides to restart at Sabarmati Riverfront

The joyrides will start from August 12 and will be offered on Saturdays, Sundays and specific public holidays.

Ahmedabad | Updated: August 4, 2023 08:27 PM IST

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A view of helicopter as it prepares to land at the water aerodrome, Sabarmati riverfront after completing city tour joyride. (Express file photo/ Nirmal Harindran)

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Four months after suspension of helicopter joy rides on the Sabarmati Riverfront, AeroTrans Services Pvt Ltd — a three-and-a-half-year-old aviation company — have won a fresh bid to restart the services.

The company, in an official statement Friday, said it will restart the 10-minute joyride from August 12. Each ride would cost Rs 2,478 per passenger, about 5 per cent higher than the cost declared at the beginning of the service in January 2022.

Once inside, the passengers fasten their seatbelts before the helicopter takes off, providing the first aerial view of the Sabarmati Riverfront and the Vasna barrage in close proximity.. (Express file photo/ Nirmal Harindran)

The services will be offered on Saturdays and Sundays and specific public holidays. “Aerotrans will commence the much-awaited helicopter joy rides from riverfront water aerodrome, Ahmedabad.The rides would commence from August 12 under a contract with the government of Gujarat,” the statement said.

The state government had awarded the contract to the firm to offer joyrides from the riverfront on January 1, 2022. “Over 7,500 people have taken the joy rides till date, with bookings going 100 per cent full,” claimed the company owned by the owner of an Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical firm, Hester Biosciences in his personal capacity.

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