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Helicopter Services To Kedarnath
Pawan Hans is resuming daily helicopter services from 12th
May 2005, from Agastya Muni (distt. Rudraprayag) to
Kedarnath. Flight will depart from Agastya Muni daily
between 6:30 am to 11:10 am, by a 5-seater Bell 407
helicopter. Agast Muni is located 17 km beyond Rudraprayag
enroute to Kedarnath. Rudraprayag is about 140 km from
Rishikesh and is linked by good motorable roads. |
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The service originates from
the helipad located at big play groung (near Police
Station) at Agast Muni. This is on the left side of main
Kedarnath road while coming from Rudraprayag. The flying
time would be around 45 minutes for a round trip (Agatst
Muni-Kedarnath-Agatst Muni). The first flight would start
at 6:30 am and the last flight from Agast Muni would be at
11:10 am.
Darshan Time For Devotees
Passengers would get 1 hr 30 minutes at Kedarnath for
darshan. The passenger who would like to stay overnight
can take the last flight of the day around at 11:10 am
from Agast Muni. Accomodation is available at Kedarnath.
Passengers should book their own accomodation directly at
Kedarnath. PHHL would assist them in this regard. Payment
thereof shall be made directly by them.
Air Fare and Darshan / Cancellation Charges
Rs. 8,501/- per pax for the round trip (Agastya
Muni-Kedarnath-Agastya Muni), including Rs 501/- for
special darshan on priority basis.
• Passengers can also purchase tickets for one way i.e. Agast Muni-Kedarnath or Kedarnath-Agast Muni, subject to
availability of seats. The fare for this will be Rs.
5000/- and Rs. 4000/- for Agast Muni-Kedarnth and
Kedarnath-Agast Muni sectors respectively with no priority
darshan.
• For infants less than 2 years, fare will be 10% of the
ticket cost and no seats would be provided to the infants.
• There is no half ticket for children. Children would be
provided with seats.
• Tickets purchased directly from PHHL, the cancellation
charges for tickets would be as under:
Cancellation time more than:
24 hours is 5%
12 hours is 25%
04 hours is 50%
Less than 4 hours is 100%.
• If the flight is cancelled / rescheduled due to bad
weather, technical reasons, lack of pasenger load or any
other reasons, the passenger is required to travel on his
own. The liability of the PHHL will be limited to the
refund of fare of unutilized sector.
KEDARNATH HELICOPTER SERVICE
SCHEDULE (5-seater)
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Flights |
Agastya Muni
ETD |
Kedarnath
ETA/ETD |
Agastya Muni
ETA |
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1st |
0630 |
0650/0655 |
0715 |
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2nd |
0810 |
0830/0835 |
0855 |
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3rd |
0940 |
1000/1005 |
1025 |
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4th |
1110 |
1130/1135 |
1155 |
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Passengers can only carry
one hand baggage on helicopter flight. They are required
to abide by the security requirements and not to carry
prohibited items in their baggage. At the helipad there's
enough space for parking of vehicles. After coming back to
Agast Muni by helicopter, the devotees can also reach Joshimath / Badrinath on the same day by their own mode of
transport via Kund situated around 18 km, from Agast Muni.
At Kedarnath, passengers would get assistance from GMVN /
PHHL, which would guide them for priority darshan etc. As
Kedarnath is situated at high altitude, few passengers may
require Oxygen, which is available at Kedarnath.
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