Bengaluru: Three airports in Karnataka — Mysore, Bidar and Vidyanagar (Ballari) — have been selected in the first phase of bidding for the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), known as UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagarik).
Under RCS, the Central government has identified 19 airports in the State for development and upgradation. While air connectivity to Vidyanagar airport will commence next month, in Mysuru and Bidar it will be from September. The all-inclusive airfare under RCS is Rs. 2,500 and the airfare cap will be indexed to inflation and revised quarterly.
