The steel city will once again come up on India's air map with a direct flight link to Calcutta from February-end or March this year, under the Centre's UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) Yojana, Union minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha said today.
Jayant, who was in Jamshedpur to attend interactive sessions with industrialists under the banner of Laghu Udyog Bharat and B-school students at XLRI, told media persons that Jamshedpur, despite being an unserved airport, had received three bids in the first round under the regional connectivity scheme also known as UDAN.
In aviation parlance, an unserved airport is one where there have been no scheduled commercial flights during the last two flight schedules approved by the directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) and an underserved airport is one where there are no more than seven scheduled commercial flight departures a week.
Under UDAN, the Centre will subsidise losses incurred by private airlines flying out of dormant (unserved and underserved) airports so that fares can be capped at Rs 2,500 for an hour's flight. About 80 per cent of the subsidy will be collected by charging a levy of up to Rs 8,500 on each departing flight of domestic airlines and the rest 20 per cent will come from respective state governments.
For Jamshedpur, three private companies operating scheduled flights for first time under UDAN scheme have shown interest in starting flight services from Sonari Airport in the initial bidding round that ended on January 16.
20/01/17 The Telegraph
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Jayant, who was in Jamshedpur to attend interactive sessions with industrialists under the banner of Laghu Udyog Bharat and B-school students at XLRI, told media persons that Jamshedpur, despite being an unserved airport, had received three bids in the first round under the regional connectivity scheme also known as UDAN.
In aviation parlance, an unserved airport is one where there have been no scheduled commercial flights during the last two flight schedules approved by the directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) and an underserved airport is one where there are no more than seven scheduled commercial flight departures a week.
Under UDAN, the Centre will subsidise losses incurred by private airlines flying out of dormant (unserved and underserved) airports so that fares can be capped at Rs 2,500 for an hour's flight. About 80 per cent of the subsidy will be collected by charging a levy of up to Rs 8,500 on each departing flight of domestic airlines and the rest 20 per cent will come from respective state governments.
For Jamshedpur, three private companies operating scheduled flights for first time under UDAN scheme have shown interest in starting flight services from Sonari Airport in the initial bidding round that ended on January 16.
20/01/17 The Telegraph
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