The people in the landlocked Barak Valley, battered by constant rain in the hills, are still searching frantically for the cheaper air service that they had been promised at the launch of the Silchar-Guwahati Flybig flights, amid rail congestion and a road blockade.
Currently, it operates across four states and eight destinations, including Kolkata (West Bengal), Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Lilabari, Rupsi (all in Assam), Agartala (Tripura) as well as Passighat and Tezu (Arunachal Pradesh).