Question : PRIVATE AIR TAXI SERVICES



(a) whether a proposal to encourage private air taxi services for linking smaller cities is under consideration;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the cities have been identified for the running of private air Taxi services; and

(d) if so, the details thereof particularly with reference to West Bengal and North Eastern States?

Answer given by the minister

- - - - - - THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION

(PROF. CHAMAN LAL GUPTA)
(a) and (b): To encourage small aircraft (turbo-prop) operations to connect smaller and non-metro cities, it has been decided to provide ATF to such aircraft at international prices and notify ATF as a `declared good` under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956.

(c) and (d): Operators are free to connect places in their commercial judgement subject to compliance with the Route Dispersal Guidelines which provide for certain minimum operations on specified category of routes.