Lok Sabha Question No. 735 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: Operation of Flights
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: ELUMALAI VELLAIGOUNDER

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 8 735 (To be answered on the December 2015) 3rd

## OPERA TION OF FLIGHTS

735.

SHRI ELUMALAI V.

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIA TION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) the number of sectors in which flights are being operated by all the aviation companies in the country; and (6) the details of the profitable and non-profitable air routes, sector-wise; the systemfcriteria aid down for allocating routes to the national carrier

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Dr Mahesh Sharma)

(a): Schedule domestic airlines are operating from 81 airports within the country as per the winter schedule 2015 (Annexure-1)

(c): No such system/criteria is Taid down; With regard to domestic sectoo Government has Iaid down Route Dispersal Guidelines (RDG) with & viewto achieve better regulation of air transport services of different of the country: It hogvevero Up to the airiines to provide air servicesto specific the airlines are free to operate anywhere in the country subject to compliance of Route Dispersal Guidelines issued by Government regions iS,

(6): No such analysis has been carried out:

- and the private carriers?

Air Connectivity Winter Schedule 2015 State\_Wise\_

|                                   |                                   |                                                    | No of                             |
|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| SI. No.                           | State                             | Names of Cities Air linked                         | Airports                          |
| 5 States_                         | 5 States_                         | 5 States_                                          | 5 States_                         |
| 1                                 | Andhara Pradesh                   | Rajamundry, Tirupati;, Vijayawada, Vizag, Cuddapah |                                   |
| 2                                 | Arunachal Pradesh                 | Jorhat; Lilabari Silchar;                          | 6                                 |
| 3_                                | Assam                             | Cibrugarh, Guwahati, Tezpur                        |                                   |
| 4                                 | Bihar                             | Gaya,Patna                                         |                                   |
| 5_                                | Chattisgarh                       | Raipur                                             |                                   |
| 6                                 | Delhi                             | Delhi                                              |                                   |
| 7_                                | Goa                               | Goa Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar; Bhuj Jamnagar,           | 8                                 |
| 8                                 | Gujrat                            |                                                    |                                   |
| 9                                 | Haryana                           |                                                    | 2                                 |
|                                   | Himachal Pradesh                  | Dharamshala; Kullu                                 | 4                                 |
| 11                                | Jammu & Kashmir                   |                                                    | 3                                 |
| 12.                               | Jharkhand Karnataka               | Ranchi_ Bangalore                                  | 3                                 |
| 13.                               | Kerala_                           | Trivandrum CalicutCochin                           | 5                                 |
| 14                                |                                   | Indore_Jabalpur_Khajuraho                          | 5                                 |
| 15                                | Madhya Pradesh                    | Aurangabad                                         |                                   |
| 16.                               | Maharashtra                       | Imphal                                             |                                   |
| 17.                               | Manipur                           | Shiliong_                                          |                                   |
| 18 19.                            | Meghalaya Mezoram                 |                                                    |                                   |
|                                   | Nagaland                          |                                                    |                                   |
| 20.                               | Orissa                            | Bhubaneshwar                                       |                                   |
| 21 22                             | Punjab                            | Amritsar Jaipur_Jochpur_Udaipur                    |                                   |
| 23.                               | Rajasthan                         |                                                    |                                   |
| 24_                               | Sikkim                            | Madurai _Trichy_Tuticorin Chennai_Ccimbatore_      | 5 1                               |
| 25.                               |                                   |                                                    | 1                                 |
| 26                                | Telangana                         | Hyderabad                                          |                                   |
| 27                                | Iripura                           |                                                    | 5                                 |
| 28_                               | Uttar Pradesh                     | Agra,                                              | 2                                 |
| 29_                               | Utiranchal                        |                                                    | 3                                 |
| 30 West Bengal 2 UnionTerritories | 30 West Bengal 2 UnionTerritories | 30 West Bengal 2 UnionTerritories                  | 30 West Bengal 2 UnionTerritories |
|                                   | Andaman & Nicobar Islands_        | Port Blair, Car Nicobar                            |                                   |
| 2                                 | Lakshadweeplslands                | Agatti                                             | 1                                 |
| 3                                 | Chandigarh                        | Chandigarh                                         |                                   |
| 4                                 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli              |                                                    |                                   |
| 5                                 | Daman & Diu                       | Diu Pondicherry                                    | 1                                 |
| 6_                                | Pondicherry                       | domestic carriers                                  | 81                                |

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