Lok Sabha Question No. 4409 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-22
Subject: New Air Services
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: SONA RAM CHOUDHARY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 4409 (To be answered on the March 2018) 22nd

New Air Services

4409\_

COL. SONARAM CHOUDHARY

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) the policy for making new air services available in the country;
- (c) whether proposal for starting air services in Barmer in Rajasthan has been received;
- () the locations where new air services have been made available during the last four years, State/UT-wise;
- (d) if the details thereof; and SO,

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- (e) whether the Government proposes to start air services in Barmer and if the details thereof? SO,

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) (b): Ministry of Civil Aviation launched Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) UDAN on 2lst October; 2016 to facilitate / stimulate regional air connectivity by making it affordable by supporting airline operators through (1) concessions by Central Government; State Governments and airport operators to reduce the cost of airline operations on regional routes other support measures and (2) financial (viability gap funding or VGF) support to meet the gap, if any, between the cost of airline operations and expected revenues on such routes

(c) to (e): Implementing Agency has awarded Delhi-Uterlai(Barmer Distt )-Delhi route to Zoom Air in second round of bidding under RCS-UDAN on 24.01.2018: As per Scheme document, the Selected Airline Operator shall\_be obligated to commence RCS Flight operations on an RCS Route, as part of Individual Route Proposal or a Network Proposal within a period of 180 days from the issuance of Letter of Award for such Individual Route Proposal or a Network Proposal unless any extension is granted by the Implementing Agency.

The list of locations where new air services have been made available under the Scheme is at Annexure-I

## RCS Routes Operational under Is and 2ud Round of . Annexure-I SNo\_ 'bidding; as on 15 March 2018 Departure Airport

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|         |                                          | Arrival Airport                         |                           |                           |
|---------|------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|
| 1       | Bhatinda (Punjabl)                       | Delhi                                   | Operator                  | Date                      |
| 2       | (A.P) Kadapa                             |                                         | Alliance Air              | 27-04-2017                |
| 3       | Hyderabad (Telangana)                    | Hyderabad(Telangana)                    | Trujet                    | 27-04-2017                |
| 4       | Hyderabad (Telangana)                    | Kadapa(Telengana)                       | Trujet                    | 27-04-2017                |
| 5.      | Nanded (Maharashtra)                     | Nanded(Maharastra)                      | Trujet                    | 27-04-2017                |
| 6.      | Delhi                                    | Hyderabad(Telangana) Bhatinda(Punjabl)  | Trujet                    | 27-04-2017                |
| 7.      | Shimla (HP)                              |                                         | Alliance Air              | 27-04-2017                |
| 8       | Delhi                                    | Delhi                                   |                           | 27-04-2017                |
| 9       | Gwalior (MP)                             | Shimla (HP) Delhi                       | Alliance Air              | 27-04-2017                |
| 10.     | Indore (MP)                              | Gwalior (MP)                            | Alliance Air              | 31-05-2017                |
| 11.     | Gwalior (MP)                             | Indore (MP)                             | Alliance Air              | 31-05-2017                |
|         | Kandla (Gujarat)                         |                                         | Alliance Air              | 31-05-2017                |
| 13.     | Mumbai (Maharashtra)                     | Mumbai(Maharastra)                      | Spice Jet                 | 10-07-2017                |
| 14,     | Porbandar (Gujarat)                      | Kandla (Gujarat)                        | Spice Jet                 | 10-07-2017                |
| 15.     | Pondicherry (UT)                         | Mumbai(Maharastra) Hyderabad(Telangana) | Spice Jet                 | 10-07-2017                |
| 16.     | Hyderabad (AP)                           | Pondicherry (UT)                        | Spice Jet                 | 16-08-2017                |
| 17.     | Ludhiana (Punjab)                        | Delhi                                   | Spice Jet                 | 16-08-2017                |
| 18.     | Delhi                                    | Ludhiana(Punjab))                       | Alliance Air              | 02-09-2017                |
| 19_     | Chennai (Tamil Nadu)                     | Mysore (Karnataka)                      | Alliance Air Trujet       | 02-09-2017 20-09-2017     |
| 20_     | Mysore(Karnataka)                        | Hyderabad(Telangana)                    | Trujet                    | 20-09-2017                |
| 21_     | Vidyanagar (Karnataka)                   | Chennai (Tamil Nadu)                    | Trujet                    |                           |
| 22_ 23. | Hyderabad(AP) Delhi                      | Vidyanagar Bikaner (Rajasthan)          | Trujet                    | 21-09-2017                |
| 24.     | Bikaner (Rajashthan)                     | Delhi                                   | Alliance Air Alliance Air | 26-09-2017                |
| 25.     | Jaipur (Rajasthan)                       |                                         |                           | 26-09-2017                |
| 26.     | Jaisalmer (Rajasthan)                    | Jaisaimer(Rajasthan)"                   | Spice Jet                 | 29-10-2017                |
| 27      | Nanded (Maharashtra)                     | Jaipur (Rajasthan)                      | Spice Jet                 | 29-10-2017                |
| 28.     | Mumbai (Maharashtra)                     | Mumbai(Maharastra)                      | Trujet                    | 16-11-2017                |
|         | Chennai (Tamil Nadu)                     | Nanded(Maharastra) (AP) Kadapa          | Trujet                    | 16-11-2017                |
| 30.     | (A.P) Kadapa                             | Chennai (Tamil Nadu)                    | Trujet Trujet             | 16-11-2017 16-11-2017     |
| 32_     | Jaipur(Rajasthan)                        | Agra (U.P)                              | Alliance Air              | 08-12-2017                |
|         | Agra(UP)                                 | Jaipur (Rajasthan)                      | Alliance Air              | 08-12-2017                |
|         | Nasik (Maharashtra) Jalgaon (Maharzstra) | Pune(Maharastra)                        | Deccan Air Deccan Air     | 23-12-2017                |
| 36.     |                                          | Jalgaon(Maharastra)                     | Deccan Air                |                           |
| 35.     | Mumbai(Maharastra)                       | Mumbai(Maharastra)                      |                           | 23-12-2017                |
| 37.     | Pune(Maharastra)                         | Nasik(Maharastra)                       |                           | 23-12-2017                |
| 39.     | Jamnagar (Gujarat)                       | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                     | Deccan Air                | 23-12-2017                |
| 38.     | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                      | Mundra (Gujarat)"                       | Air Odisha Air Odisha     | 17-02-2018 17-02-2018     |
|         | Mundra (Gujarat)                         | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                     | Air Odisha                |                           |
| 40.     | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                      | Jamnagar(Gujarat)                       | Air Odisha                | 17-02-2018                |
| 41.     | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                      | Diu (UT)                                | Air Odisha                | 17-02-2018                |
| 42.     | Diu (UT)                                 | Ahmedabad (Gujarat)                     | Air Odisha                | 24-02-2018 , ; 24-02-2018 |
| 43.     | Bangalore(Karnataka) (AP) Kadapa         | Vidyanagar (Karnataka)                  | Trujet                    | 01-03-2018                |
| 45.     | Vijayawada(AP)                           | Vijayawada (AP)                         | Trujet                    | 01-03-2018                |
| 46.     |                                          | Kadapa(AP)                              | Trujet                    | 01-03-2018                |
|         |                                          | Bangalore(Karnataka)                    | Trujet                    | 01-03-2018                |
|         |                                          | Bhatinda (Punjab)                       | Alliance Air              | 27.02.2018                |
|         | Bhatinda (Punjab)                        | Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir)                 | Alliance Air              | 27.02.2018                |