(a) whether the Government have received any proposal for increasing the frequency of flights between Guwahati-Dimapur-Tezpur sector from twice to four days in a week; and
(b) if so, the time by which the final decision is likely to be taken up?
(a) whether the Government have received any proposal for increasing the frequency of flights between Guwahati-Dimapur-Tezpur sector from twice to four days in a week; and
(b) if so, the time by which the final decision is likely to be taken up?
THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION
(SHRI SHARAD YADAV)
(a) At present, no airline is operating on
Guwahati-Dimapur-Tezpur route. Alliance Air operates a
twice weekly flight on Calcutta-Tezpur-Dimapur-Calcutta and
twice weekly flight on Jorhat-Dimapur-Calcutta routes.
Requests have been received for increasing the frequency of
flights from Tezpur, connecting Guwahati-Calcutta-Delhi.
(b) Airlines are free to connect to any place/operate on any
route in their commercial judgement subject to compliance
with the Route Dispersal guidelines which provide for
certain minimum operations on specified category of routes.