Tuesday, October 28, 2014

CPM chief whip demands more flights for Tripura

Agartala:  Protesting against Jet Airways' withdrawal of its last flight from Agartala airport on Sunday, CPM's chief whip in the Lok Sabha, Jitendra Choudhury, sought more flights for Tripura and inclusion of Agartala in Alliance Air's northeastern cities circuit.

Under the viability gap funding (VGF) arrangement, North Eastern Council (NEC) has signed an agreement with the ministry of civil aviation recently to help Alliance Air run ATR flights in five northeastern cities. Agartala, however, does not feature on the list.

Before leaving for South America as part of the Indian Goodwill Delegation of Parliamentarians, Choudhury said private airlines, though not directly regulated by the ministry of civil aviation, should look beyond profits. The Agartala airport is estimated to generate the second-largest air traffic in the northeast after Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, he said.
28/10/14 Times of India
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