coimbatore after a gap of five months a base flight has returned to the coimbatore international airportearlier this month indigo airlines decided to base one of its flights in coimbatore from where it will fly to chennai in the morning and back from the metro the same night it will be parked in the airport for nearly 12 hours besides providing another morning flight option for many frequent fliers from the city the base flight helps in creating job opportunities in mechanical and aeronautical sectors in the long term for a little over a week indigo airlines has been operating a flight to chennai that departs at 855am from coimbatore and lands at 1030am they have also introduced a return flight which departs from chennai at 8pm and lands in coimbatore at 910pm an airport official said we will get to charge the airline a parking fee because parking for more than three hours is chargeable however they are unlikely to benefit from the vat concession because their flight leaves after 7am and returns well before 11pm other criteria for the concession he said it may get tweaked later he added despite the technicalities coimbatorians are delighted to get a new flight that departs in the morning and returns in the night at a comfortable hour tanvi shah a home baker caterer said with a departure at 855 am it is adequate to leave from your home or hotel at around 7715am when you land at 9pm we get to reach home by 10pm making it easier for us to find affordable cabs you get to reach just as business hour starts and return after finishing your workday the other morning flight is at 735am for which most people must leave home by 545am to 6am that flight is also usually expensive arvind v who works in public relations saidtravellers hope indigo or one of the other airlines start operating a base flight to new delhi and back too soon we need an early morning flight to new delhi allowing us to reach before business hours and to take flights to europe j sathish a frequent flier abroad and within the country said airport director n mahalingam said an airport getting base flights will start contributing to the localitys economy a base flight in coimbatore over the long term means opportunities for pilots aeronautical engineers maintenance staff and flight crew right now they might place crews in hotels but may over time recruit people living here or from chennai