Question : FLIGHTS ON GUWAHATI DIMAPUR TEZPUR SECTOR



(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?

Answer given by the minister

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.