(a) the details of the district headquarters having booking facilities of one or more airlines, State-wise;
(b) whether the Government propose to provide such booking facilities in the major cities of States where air services are minimum; and
(c) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION ( SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY )
(a):- State-wise list of On-line /Off-line booking offices of Air India Ltd. and Indian Airlines Ltd. is provided at Annexure.
In addition to these booking offices locations, facility for effecting reservations/ bookings is also provided through a number of Passenger Sales Agency / Travel Agency locations available in various Cities/Towns through Computerised Reservations System Connectivity.
(b) & (c):- Opening of booking offices of airlines in any district/ place is subject to the commercial requirements of the airlines. It is, therefore, not essential that airlines have their booking offices in each district or every State.
ANNEXURE
STATE-WISE LIST OF ON-LINE/OFF-LINE BOOKING OFFICES OF AIR INDIA LTD. AND INDIAN AIRLINES LTD.
NAME OF THE STATE ON-LINE/OFF-LINE BOOKING OFFICES OF OFFICES OF AIR INDIA INDIAN AIRLINES
Andaman & Nicobar Islands - Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad Hyderabad, Vizag, Tirupati,Vijayawada
Assam Guwahati Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Jorhat, Tezpur, Lilabari
Bihar - Patna, Gaya
Chattisgarh - Raipur, Bhilai
Delhi Delhi Delhi
Goa Goa Goa
Gujarat Ahmedabad, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Rajkot Anand Rajkot, Surat Jammu & Kashmir - Jammu, Srinagar, Leh
Jharkhand - Ranchi
Karnataka Bangalore, Mangalore Mangalore, Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin, Calicut Kochi, Calicut, Mallapuram, Kannur, Trichur, Tiruvalla
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore
Meghalaya - Shillong
Maharashtra Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Pune
Manipur - Imphal
Mizorum - Aizwal
Nagaland - Dimapur
Orissa - Bhubaneshwar
Punjab Amritsar, Jallandhar Amritsar
Rajasthan Jaipur Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur
Tamilnadu Chennai, Trichy, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy Coimbatore Tripura - Agartala
Chandigarh (U.T) Chandigarh Chandigarh
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi Kanpur West Bengal Kolkata Kolkata, Siliguri, Darjiling, Bagdogra