India, June 30 -- Zomato cofounder Deepinder Goyal is looking to tap the regional air travel sector with new venture LAT Aerospace.

In a recent LinkedIn post, the foodtech major's former chief operating officer Surobhi Das said that she and Goyal want to build LAT Aerospace to facilitate "high-frequency, low-cost and demand-based" regional air travel in India.

The startup is building STOL (short take-off and landing) and medium-haul aircraft to ease air connectivity in tier II and tier III cities.

"Think buses in the sky - affordable, high-frequency, and designed to connect the places the airline industry overlooked," the post added.

In March, Goyal infused $20 Mn (around INR 174 Cr) in the startup, which was then operating in stealth...