Lok Sabha Question No. 3144 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-11
Subject: Allotment of Slots for Airlines
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Mohanbhai Kalyanji Kundariya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: : 3144 (To be answered on the July 2019) Ith

## ALLOTMENT OF SLOTS FOR AIRLINES

## 3144. SHRI MOHANBHAI KALYANJI KUNDARIYA

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether a number of slots with schedule per airport of recently defunct airline, across the country are lying vacant and if s0, the details thereof; along
- (b) whether any request for allotment of slot has been made to the competent authority at New Delhi to operate everyday an additional Delhi-Rajkot-Delhi flight and if sO, the details thereof and the action taken thereon; and whether any mechanism is being worked out for allotment of slots of the defunct airline and if sO, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

Minister of State (IC) in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIA TION

(a): Sir. The details are at Annexure-I Yes;

- (b): Sir. Airports Authority of India (AAD) had received the request from Air India for operation of flight at Delhi-Rajkot-Delhi route. However; the same was denied by AAI as the requested times (arrival and departure) at Rajkot were beyond watch hours. Yes;
- (c): The Government has constituted a Slot Allocation Committee having representatives from DGCA, AAI and JV/Private Airport operators for allocation of domestic slots vacated by Jet Airways to other scheduled airlines on adhoc basis in most transparent and equitable manner, as per the Standard Operating Procedure devised for the purpose.

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(Shri Hardeep Singh Puri)

| S No   | Airport    | No of slots unused at AAI Airports due to temporary suspension of operation by a scheduled airlines   |
|--------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1      | AHMEDABAD  | 8                                                                                                     |
| 2      | ALLAHABAD  | 4                                                                                                     |
| 3      | AMRITSAR   | 8                                                                                                     |
| 4      | AURANGABAD |                                                                                                       |
| 5      | BAGDOGRA   |                                                                                                       |
| 6      | BHOPAL     |                                                                                                       |
| 7      | BHUJ       |                                                                                                       |
| 8      | CHANDIGARH | 4                                                                                                     |
| 9      | CHENNAI    | 34                                                                                                    |
| 10     | COIMBATORE | 8                                                                                                     |
| 11     | DEHRADUN   | 6                                                                                                     |
| 12     | GOA        | 2                                                                                                     |
| 13     | GUWAHATI   | 12                                                                                                    |
| 14     | IMPHAL     | 2                                                                                                     |
| 15     | INDORE     | 18                                                                                                    |
| 16     | JAIPUR     | 5                                                                                                     |
| 17     | JODHPUR    | 10                                                                                                    |
| 18     | KHAJURAHO  |                                                                                                       |
| 19     | KOLKATA    | 8                                                                                                     |
| 20     | CALICUT    |                                                                                                       |
| 21     | LEH        | 2                                                                                                     |
| 22     | LUCKNOW    | 12                                                                                                    |
| 23     | MANGALORE  | 6                                                                                                     |
| 24     | PORT BLAIR | 2                                                                                                     |
| 25     | PUNE       | 10                                                                                                    |
| 26     | RAJKOT     | 6                                                                                                     |
| 27     | SRINAGAR   | 2                                                                                                     |
| 28     | TRIVANDRUM | 4                                                                                                     |
| 29     | UDAIPUR    | 6                                                                                                     |
| 30:    | VADODARA   | 10                                                                                                    |
|        | VARANASI   | 4                                                                                                     |
|        | Total      | 209                                                                                                   |