{"id":7464,"date":"2022-12-15T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flyamritsarairport.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:00:38","slug":"canada-amritsar-flights-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/canada-amritsar-flights-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada-Amritsar flights campaign in the News again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.nationbuilder.com\/bvmp\/pages\/854\/attachments\/original\/1669059847\/Air_India_November_2022-17112022140637.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian MPs<\/a> from Conservative party Caucus wrote to India&#8217;s flagship airline Air India for initiating direct flights from Amritsar to Canada, and now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/direct-trips-to-punjab-india-could-be-coming-as-brampton-council-pushes-feds-for-flights-from-pearson-airport-in-mississauga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motion was passed by Brampton Civic Council<\/a> on Wednesday (Dec. 14) directing City staff to bring Brampton residents\u2019 concerns and requests for direct and regular flights between Pearson Airport and the state of Punjab to the federal government and airline stakeholders. The campaign for direct flights from Canada to Amritsar is gaining momentum and becoming household name among Punjabi diaspora across North America said &#8220;Anantdeep Singh Convenor North America for FlyAmritsar Initiative&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The campaign for flights recently got coverage by Canada&#8217;s flagship news channel- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/direct-flights-india-amritsar-1.6680794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBC News<\/a><br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=--DD4fplMVw\">Demand for more flights to India &#8211; YouTube<\/a> @ <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBCVancouver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBC Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/--DD4fplMVw\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/advocacy-group-citing-desperate-need-pushes-for-direct-flights-between-canada-and-punjab-india\/ar-AA15dTjh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Advocacy group pushes for Direct flights between Amritsar &amp; Canada<\/mark><\/strong><\/a><br>Mohit Dhanju, spokesperson for the FlyAmristar Initiative, says most of the six cities in the new agreement are located in central and southern India, which means travelers will need to wait about seven hours in Delhi to take a connecting flight to Amritsar or drive approximately eight to 10 hours to northern India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko &#8211; Dec. 12, 2022- CBC Radio One<\/mark><\/strong><br>Advocates call for a direct flight from Vancouver to Amritsar, India<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-46\/clip\/15954479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-46\/clip\/15954479<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/brampton-council-wants-direct-flight-to-punjab-india-pearson-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Direct trips to Punjab India could be coming as Brampton Council pushes feds for flights from Pearson Airport<\/mark><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/brampton-council-wants-direct-flight-to-punjab-india-pearson-international-airport\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> in Toronto Area<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/demands-grow-for-direct-flights-from-amritsar-to-canada-101671017602980.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Demands grow for direct flights from Amritsar to Canada<\/a> <\/mark>(HT India)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Canadian MPs from Conservative party Caucus wrote to India&#8217;s flagship airline Air India for initiating direct flights from Amritsar to Canada, and now a motion was passed by Brampton Civic Council on Wednesday (Dec. 14) directing City staff to bring Brampton residents\u2019 concerns and requests for direct and regular flights between Pearson Airport and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[96,97,15],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada-amritsar-flights","tag-cbc-news","tag-flyamritsar-initiative"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vismaad.com\/fly-amritsar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}