Lok Sabha Question No. 966 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-08
Subject: Air Services
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: RAHUL KASWAN

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED NO. : 966 (To be answered on the February 2018)

## Air Services

966.

SHRI RAHUL KASWAN

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

## ANSWER

## Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Government has decided to introduce new air services from various places in the country to save common man'$ time and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the air-service has been operated/is operated from various cities of Rajasthan; being
- (c) if the details thereof; SO,
- (d) whether any timeframe has been fixed for and this;
- (e) if the details thereof? SO,

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(2): Details of domestic flights started in 2017-18 by Air India: Air India Express and Alliance Air are available as Annexure-I Apart from the Government has also launched regional connectivity scheme UDAN. It is a market driven mechanism in which development of regional air connectivity routes left to the market forces so that airlines undertake assessment of demand and nature of supply required on particular routes. this;

(b) & (c); As per\_Winter Schedule-2017, scheduled domestic flights are available Details of the flight schedule to/from these airports are available as Annexure-II (d) & (e): Government has laid down Route Dispersal Guidelines (RDG) with a view to achieve better regulation of air transport services of different regions of the country. It however; Up to the airlines to provide air services to specific places depending upon the traffic demand and commercial viability. As such, the airlines are free to operate anywhere in the country subject to compliance of RDG issues by iS,

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## Annexure-|

Air India started operations in 2017-18 on many new domestic routes which are as follows:

- Delhi-Rajkot-Delhi effective 03rd 2017 (03 flightslweek); May,
- (ii) Bengaluru-Kolkata-Bhubaneshwar-Hyderabad   daily flight w.e.f 1Oth Jun; 2017;
- (ii)  Hyderabad-Bhubaneshwar-Kolkata daily flight w.e.f 1Oth Jun, 2017;
- (iv) Guwahati-Kolkata-Bengaluru daily flight w.e.f 1Oth 2017; Jun,
- Kolkata-Guwahati second daily flight w.e.f 1Oth Jun, 2017;
- (vi)  Varanasi-Kolkata-Varanasi from 28th 2017; Nov,
- (viii) Bhubaneshwar-Bengaluru-Bhubaneshwar from 14th Dec, 2017;
- (ix) Mumbai-Amritsar-Mumbai from 23rd Dec, 2017;
- (x) Amritsar-Nanded-Amritsar from 23rd 2017; Dec,
- (xi) Delhi-Vizag-Port Blair-Delhi & Delhi-Port Blair-Vizag-Delhi from O1st Jan 2018

FY 2017-18, Air India Express has introduced following new flights to facilitate convenient air travel to all passengers During

| New Routes                      |   Freqlweek |
|---------------------------------|-------------|
| Mumbai-Vijayawada-Mumbai        |           3 |
| Delhi-Madurai-Delhi             |           4 |
| Delhi-Coimbatore-Delhi          |           3 |
| Madura-Singapore-Madurai        |           4 |
| Coimbatore-Singapore-Coimbatore |           3 |
| Kochi-Doha-Kochi                |           4 |

During FY 2017-18, Alliance Air has introduced following new flights to facilitate convenient air travel to all passengers.

- Delhi-Shimla-Delhi w.e.f 27th April, 2017;
- (ii) Delhi-Bathinda-Delhi w.e.f 27th April, 2017;
- (iii)   Gwalior-Indore-Gwalior W.e.f 31st 2017;
- (iv) Gwalior-Delhi w.e.f 31st 2017; May,
- (v) Delhi-Ludhiana-Delhi W.e.f O2nd September 2017;
- (vi) Delhi-Bikaner-Delhi w.e.f 28th September 20417;
- (vii) Jaipur-Agra-Jaipur W.e.f O8th December 2017;

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Airline

## Jaipur

|                                                        | Route                                                                                              | ElightsWeek   |
|--------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|
| Air India                                              | Mumbai-Jaipur &VV                                                                                  | 7             |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur &VV                                                                                   | 7             |
| Jet Airways                                            | Mumbai-Jaipur-Mumbai                                                                               | 21            |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur-Delhi                                                                                 | 35            |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur & V.v                                                                         |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 7             |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur & V.v                                                                                 | 7             |
| Air Asia                                               | Bangalore-Jaipur -Bangalore                                                                        | 10            |
|                                                        | Pune-Jaipur-Pune                                                                                   | 7             |
|                                                        | Kolkata-Jaipur-Kolkata                                                                             | 7             |
| Go Air                                                 | Mumbai-Jaipur-Mumbai                                                                               | 14            |
|                                                        | Kolkata-Jaipur-Ahmedabad                                                                           | 06            |
|                                                        | Kolkata-Jaipur-Hyderabad                                                                           | 01            |
| Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Kolkata                               |                                                                                                    | 07            |
| Alliance Air Delhi-Jaipur-Delhi                        | 07                                                                                                 |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 03            |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur-Agra & VV Jaipur-Lucknow-Dehradun                                                     | 07            |
|                                                        | Lucknow-Jaipur                                                                                     |               |
| Spicelet                                               | Hyderabad-Jaipur-Guwahati & VV Surat-Jaipur-Surat                                                  | 07 07         |
|                                                        | 07 07                                                                                              |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 07            |
|                                                        | Jaipur-Varanasi-Jaipur Jaipur-Udaipur-Jaipur Jaipur-Jaisalmer-Delhi & W Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Ahmedabad |               |
|                                                        | 07                                                                                                 |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 06            |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 07            |
|                                                        | Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur & VV Jodhpur-Jaipur & VV                                                      | 07            |
| Indigo                                                 | Bangalore-Hyderabad-Jaipur Bangalore-Jaipur-Bangalore                                              | 07            |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 21 6          |
|                                                        | Bangalore-Jaipur-Ahmedabad-Chennai Mumbai-Jaipur                                                   | 14            |
| Mumbai-Jaipur-Kolkata-Guwahati                         | 7                                                                                                  |               |
| Kolkata-Jaipur-Kolkata                                 |                                                                                                    |               |
| Kolkata-Jaipur-Ahmedabad-Chennai                       | 7                                                                                                  |               |
| Coimbatore-Jaipur-Ahmedabad-Chennai Delhi-Jaipur-Delhi | 1                                                                                                  |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 14            |
| Delhi-Jaipur-Chennai                                   | 7 7                                                                                                |               |
|                                                        | Guwahati-kolkata-Jaipur                                                                            |               |
|                                                        | 7                                                                                                  |               |
|                                                        | Hyderabad-Jaipur-Jammu Hyderabad-Chennai-Jaipur Jammu-Jaipur-Hyderabad                             | 1             |
| Jaipur-Mumbai                                          | 21                                                                                                 | 7             |
|                                                        | Jaipur-Mumbai-Hyderabad                                                                            |               |
|                                                        |                                                                                                    | 6             |

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| Jaipur-Delhi-Srinagar          | 7   |
|--------------------------------|-----|
| Jaipur-Hyderabad               |     |
| Jaipur-Hyderabad-Chennai       |     |
| Jaipur-Chennai-Jaipur          |     |
| Jaipur-Pune-Jaipur             | 7   |
| Chennai-Mumbai-Jaipur          |     |
| Chennai-Kochi-Jaipur           | 7   |
| Chennai-Udaipur-Jaipur-Chennai | 7   |

## Jodhpur

| Airline     | Route                                           |      |
|-------------|-------------------------------------------------|------|
| Jet Airways | Bangalore-Mumbai-Jodhpur& W Delhi-Jodhpur-Delhi | 7 21 |
| Air India   | Delhi-Jodhpur& VV Mumbai-Jodhpur& W             | 7 7  |
| SpiceJet    | Delhi-Jodhpur- Delhi Surat-Jodhpur-Jaipur & VV  | 7    |

## Jaisalmer

| Airline              | Route                                                                    | ElightsWeek   |
|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|
| SpiceJet             | Delhi-Jaisalmer-Delhi Jaipur-Jaisalmer-Jaipur                            |               |
| Airline Alliance Air | Route Delhi-Bikaner-Delhi                                                | ElightsIWeek  |
| Airline              | Route Jaipur-Udaipur-Jaipur Mumbai-Udaipur-Mumbai                        | 14            |
| SpiceJet             | Delhi-Udaipur-Delhi                                                      | 07            |
|                      | Udaipur-Delhi-Bangalore-Trivandrum & V.V Mumbai-Udaipur-Mumbai           | 06 7          |
| Jet Airways          | Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur Delhi-Udaipur-Delhi                                 | 14 7 7        |
| Air India            | Delhi-Udaipur& VV Mumbai-Udaipur& VV                                     | 7 7           |
| Indigo               | Mumbai-Udaipur-Mumbai Delhi-Udaipur-Delhi Chennai-Udaipur-Jaipur-Chennai | 14 14 7       |