Govt. to restart regional air connectivity services under UDAN scheme
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25th May, 2020
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- Civil Aviation Ministry has decided to restart the regional air connectivity services under the UDAN scheme.
- Preference will however be given to flights connecting North-East region, hill states, islands and other short haul routes. The flights will be augmented under the scheme in a calibrated manner.
- All operational routes up to 500 km stage length, all operational helicopter routes and routes with no viability gap funding will be permitted to resume operations.
- Selected airline operators will also be allowed to operationalize the awarded routes under the UDAN scheme, including seaplanes on the permitted routes.
- UDAN(Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) is the Government’s initiative to make air travel to India’s tier II and tier III cities affordable to the aam aadmi.
- The idea is to put smaller cities and remote regions on the aviation map, by getting domestic airlines to ply more regional routes.
- Under the scheme, the Government offers incentives to airlines to flag off new flights to neglected smaller cities and towns by providing Viability Gap Funding to make these operations profitable.
