Thiruvananthapuram: With the Kannur international airport getting ready for commercial operations later this year, uncertainty prevails over international flight operations from the fourth airport in the State. At present, talks are on with Indian and foreign carriers to finalise operations from the airport.
Sensing urgency, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the fourth Governing Council of NITI Aayog in New Delhi on June 17, to allow each interested airline to operate two flights daily as a special dispensation done earlier by the Civil Aviation Ministry for the Karipur airport.
The move to restrict flight operations in Kannur to the domestic sector is seen as part of a move to make the Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengalaru, and Hyderabad airports as “major international hubs and main access points for international travel to and from India” and follow the hub-and-spoke model to facilitate development of regional networks and air connectivity as envisaged in the draft Civil Aviation Policy. However, this had been avoided when the National Civil Aviation Policy 2016 was rolled out.
But, the Civil Aviation Ministry is yet to declare Kannur as a “point of call” to facilitate Indian and foreign carriers to commence international operations. Bilateral traffic rights are not an issue for commencing flight operations to West Asia and other sectors from Kannur, sources told The Hindu .
20/06/18 S. Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
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Sensing urgency, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the fourth Governing Council of NITI Aayog in New Delhi on June 17, to allow each interested airline to operate two flights daily as a special dispensation done earlier by the Civil Aviation Ministry for the Karipur airport.
The move to restrict flight operations in Kannur to the domestic sector is seen as part of a move to make the Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengalaru, and Hyderabad airports as “major international hubs and main access points for international travel to and from India” and follow the hub-and-spoke model to facilitate development of regional networks and air connectivity as envisaged in the draft Civil Aviation Policy. However, this had been avoided when the National Civil Aviation Policy 2016 was rolled out.
But, the Civil Aviation Ministry is yet to declare Kannur as a “point of call” to facilitate Indian and foreign carriers to commence international operations. Bilateral traffic rights are not an issue for commencing flight operations to West Asia and other sectors from Kannur, sources told The Hindu .
20/06/18 S. Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
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