Lok Sabha Question No. 508 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-13
Subject: Air Services from Jharkhand and Gujarat
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: LAXMAN GILUWA, MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED NO. 508 (To be answered on the December 2018)

## AIR SERVICES FROM JHARKHAND AND GUJARAT

508.

SHRI LAXMAN GILUWA SHRI MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

- (b) if the details thereof; SO,

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether any new air service has been launched from Jharkhand and Gujarat to other cities;
- (c) whether there is any proposal to launch new air services in cities of Jharkhand and Gujarat as well as from cities of Jharkhand and Gujarat to other cities also; and
- (d) if s0, the city-wise details and if any timelimit has been fixed?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a)&(b): As per Winter Schedule-2018, scheduled domestic airlines are operating scheduled flights to/from Ranchi airport in Jharkhand & tolfrom airports in Gujarat; State wise air connectivity as per Winter Schedule-2018 including Jharkhand & Gujarat is placed at Annexure-1,

(c)&(d): With the repeal of the Air Corporation Act in March 1994, the Indian airline industry was deregulated; Airlines are free to induct capacity with any aircraft type; free to select whatever markets and network wish to service and operate. In this regard, Government has laid down Route Dispersal Guidelines with a view to achieve better regulation of air transport services of different regions %f the country. It is, 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 Route Dispersal Guidelines issued by Government: they

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## State\_Wise Air Connectivity Winter Schedule\_2018

| No.                                                       | State                                                     | Names of Cities Air linked                                                           | No of Airports    |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|
| States                                                    | States                                                    | States                                                                               | States            |
|                                                           | Andhra Pradesh                                            | Rajamundry_Tirupati_Vijayawada_Vizag_Cuddapah                                        | 5                 |
| 2                                                         | Arunachal Pradesh                                         | Pasighat                                                                             |                   |
| 3                                                         | Assam                                                     | Dibrugarh_Guwahati__Jorhat_Lilabari_Silchar_Tezpur                                   | 6                 |
|                                                           | Bihar                                                     | Gaya,Patna                                                                           | 2                 |
|                                                           | Chhattisgarh                                              | Raipur,Jagdalpur                                                                     | 2                 |
|                                                           | Delhi                                                     | Delhi                                                                                | 1                 |
|                                                           | Goa                                                       | Goa                                                                                  | 1                 |
|                                                           | Gujarat:                                                  | Ahmedabad, Bhuj; Bhavnagar, Jamnagar" Rajkot, Surat_VadodaraKandla_Porbandar_Mundra_ | 10                |
| 9                                                         | Haryana                                                   |                                                                                      |                   |
| 10                                                        | Himachal Pradesh                                          | Dharamshala_Kullu_Shimla                                                             | 3                 |
| 11                                                        | Jammu & Kashmir                                           | Jammu_Leh_Srinagar_Thoise                                                            | 4                 |
| 12                                                        | Jharkhand                                                 | Ranchi                                                                               |                   |
| 13                                                        | Karnataka                                                 | Bangalore , Belgaum, Mangalore , Hubli; Vidyanagar, Mysore                           | 6                 |
| 14                                                        | Kerala                                                    |                                                                                      | 3                 |
| 15                                                        | Madhya Pradesh                                            |                                                                                      | 5                 |
| 16                                                        | Maharashtra                                               | Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Nanded,                                            |                   |
| 17                                                        | Manipur                                                   | Imphal                                                                               |                   |
| 18                                                        | Meghalaya                                                 | Shillong                                                                             |                   |
| 19                                                        | Mizoram                                                   | Aizwal                                                                               |                   |
| 20                                                        | Nagaland                                                  | Dimapur                                                                              |                   |
| 21                                                        | Orissa                                                    | Bhubaneswar                                                                          |                   |
| 22                                                        | Punjab                                                    | Amritsar_BhatindaLudhiana,Pathankot_Adampur                                          |                   |
| 23                                                        | Rajasthan                                                 | Jaipur, Jodhpur; Udaipur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Kishangarh                             |                   |
| 24                                                        | Sikkim                                                    | Pakyong_                                                                             | 6                 |
| 25                                                        | Tamil Nadu                                                | Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Tuticorin, salem                               |                   |
| 26                                                        | Telangana                                                 | Hyderabad                                                                            |                   |
| 27                                                        | Tripura_                                                  | Agartala                                                                             |                   |
| 28                                                        | Uttar Pradesh                                             | Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur; Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur                                | 6                 |
| 29                                                        | Uttaranchal                                               | Dehradun_Pant Nagar                                                                  |                   |
| 30                                                        | West Bengal                                               | Bagdogra_Kolkata,Durgapur                                                            | 3                 |
| Union Territories                                         | Union Territories                                         | Union Territories                                                                    | Union Territories |
|                                                           | Andaman & Nicobar Islands                                 | Port Blair                                                                           |                   |
| 2                                                         | Lakshadweep Islands_                                      | Agatti                                                                               |                   |
|                                                           | Chandigarh                                                | Chandigarh                                                                           |                   |
| 4                                                         | Dadra & Nagar Haveli                                      |                                                                                      |                   |
| 5                                                         | Daman & Diu                                               | Diu                                                                                  |                   |
| 6                                                         | Pondicherry                                               | Pondicherry_                                                                         |                   |
| Number of cities connected bY Scheduled domestic_carriers | Number of cities connected bY Scheduled domestic_carriers | Number of cities connected bY Scheduled domestic_carriers                            | 100               |

Nole: Temporarily suspended by airline:

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