Lok Sabha Question No. 1568 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-09
Subject: Operation of Air India Flights
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: VIKRAM USENDI, BANSHILAL MAHTO, GOPAL CHINAYYA SHETTY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED 1568 (To be answered on the March 2017)

## OPERATION OF AIR INDIA FLIGHTS

1568.

SHRI VIKRAM USENDI DR. BANSHILAL MAHATO SHRI GOPAL SHETTY

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

- the total number of airports functioning in the country, State/UT-wise; (a)
- if the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;

be pleased to state:-

- (6) whether the Air India operate flights from all the operational airports in the country;
2. (d) whether the Government proposes to introduce small airplane services for connecting metropolitan cities in the country;
- 9) the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government for expansion Of air services in various parts of the country?
4. (e) if so, the details thereof along with the name of the places/routes identified for the said Purpose and the time by which the said services are likely to be functional; and

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a): There are 77 functional airports in the country: The State/UT-wise list is at Annexure-I

- (b) & (c) Subject to availability %f limited resources, Air India and its subsidiaries presently operate flights to/from 70 airports in the country including Agartala; Agatti Tslands, Goa, Gorakhpur (Operations Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam Agra, Gaya; Raipur, Udaipur,
- (d) to (D: Flight operations in domestic sector have been deregulated and the airlines are free to operate anywhere in the country subject to Route Dispersai Guidelines (RDG) issued by the Goverament However; it is upto the airline operators to provide air services to specific piaces depending upon the traffic demand and commercial viability.

Winter Schedule 2018

| SL. No_            | State                     |                                                        | No of Airports     |
|--------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|
|                    | StateAndhra Pradesh       | Rajamundry, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Vizag, Cuddapah      | 5                  |
| 2                  | Arunachal Pradesh         |                                                        |                    |
| 3_                 | Assam                     | Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Lilabari, Silchar, Tezpur | 6                  |
| 4                  | Bihar                     | Gaya,_Patna                                            | 2                  |
| 5_                 | Chhattisgarh_             | Raipur                                                 |                    |
| 6_                 | Delhi                     | Delhi                                                  |                    |
|                    | Goa                       | Goa                                                    |                    |
|                    | Gujarat                   | Surat, Vadodara, Porbandar                             | 8                  |
| 9                  | Haryana                   |                                                        | 2                  |
| 10.                | Himachal Pradesh          | Dharamshala_Kullu                                      | 3                  |
| 11,                | Jammu & Kashmir_          | Jammu_Leh_Srinagar                                     |                    |
| 12,                | Jharkhand                 | Ranchi                                                 |                    |
| 13                 | Karnataka                 | Bangalore Belgaum MangaloreHubli                       |                    |
| 14,                | Kerala                    | Calicut_Cochin_Trivandrum                              |                    |
| 15.                | Madhya Pradesh            | Pune                                                   | 4                  |
| 16.                | Maharashtra               | Aurangabad Mumbai_Nagpur                               |                    |
|                    | Manipur                   | Imphal                                                 | 1                  |
| 18.                | Meghalaya                 | Shillong                                               |                    |
| 19.                | Mizoram                   | Aizwal                                                 |                    |
| 20                 | Nagaland                  | Dimapur                                                |                    |
| 21                 | Orissa                    | Bhubaneswar                                            |                    |
| 22                 | Punjab                    | Amritsar Bhatinda                                      | 3                  |
| 23                 | Rajasthan                 | Jaipur Jodhpur__Udaipur                                |                    |
| 24                 | Sikkim                    |                                                        |                    |
|                    | Tamil Nadu_               |                                                        | 5                  |
| 25 .               | Telangana                 | Hyderabad                                              | 1                  |
| 26 27              | Tripura                   | Agartala                                               |                    |
| 28.                | Uttar Pracesh             | Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur: Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur  | 6                  |
| 29                 | Uttaranchal               | Dehradun Pant Nagar_                                   | 2                  |
| 30                 | West Bengal               | Bagdogra_Kolkata                                       | 2                  |
| Unon Territories 1 | Unon Territories 1        | Unon Territories 1                                     | Unon Territories 1 |
|                    | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Port Blair                                             |                    |
| 2                  | Lakshadweep Islands       | Agatti                                                 |                    |
| 3_                 | Chandigarh                | Chandigarh                                             |                    |
| 4                  | Dadra & Nagar Haveli      |                                                        |                    |
|                    |                           | Diu                                                    |                    |
| 5_                 | Daman & Diy_              |                                                        | 77                 |

Number ocies connected by Scheduled domestic carriers

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