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The UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme was launched in 2016 by the central government to stimulate regional air connectivity and make air travel affordable to the masses in tier-2 and tier-3 cities and towns.
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The move is part of efforts aimed at addressing the issue of flight delays and cancellations due to low visibility at small airports, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Wednesday.
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The Govt has set a target to operationalise 1,000 UDAN routes and revive/develop 100 unserved and underserved airports/heliports/water aerodromes by 2024 for the operation of UDAN flights.
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Flight services of Alliance Air from Delhi to Shimla and further from Shimla to Dharamshala have been resumed at discounted fares, he added.
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In a post in Hindi on X, Mallikarjun Kharge said that the Modi government's promise of enabling those wearing slippers travel by air has not been fulfilled "just like all their promises".
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Though a welcome scheme to improve connectivity to small towns, design flaws, restrictive conditions and poor demand stalled its success
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The helicopter services in six routes connecting four major cities of Assam will be launched by central PSU Pawan Hans Ltd on February 8.
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The budget carrier has introduced exclusive flights on Bhopal-Udaipur, Ahmedabad-Jammu, Ranchi-Bhubaneshwar and Indore-Chandigarh routes in its winter schedule for 2022
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The newly-inaugurated flights include Delhi-Jabalpur-Bhopal-Gwalior (three days in a week) and Delhi-Jabalpur-Bilaspur-Bhopal (four days in a week).
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In the last two budgets, a large part of the allocations for the Civil Aviation Ministry went towards servicing the interest of the asset holding company in which Air India’s debts are parked and to acquire VVIP aircraft.
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Rating agency ICRA in its report on Tuesday said that there is likely to be a further delay of two years in achieving the target of operationalising as many as 100 unserved and underserved airports and starting at least 1,000 RCS routes by 2024.
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In a press release, the carrier said it has started these flights on various routes including Bhubaneswar-Allahabad, Bhubaneswar-Varanasi, Bhopal-Allahabad, Dibrugarh-Dimapur, Shillong-Agartala and Shillong-Silchar.
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Puri also explained the Members of Parliament about various steps taken by this ministry during the COVID-9 pandemic for the benefit of people as well as the aviation sector, said the statement.
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At present, the Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, has been given the Bilaspur-Prayagraj-Delhi route.
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The airline will be operating three weekly flights on the route and will deploy its 50-seater Embraer-145 aircraft.
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The 'Lifeline Udan' scheme has been started by the ministry for transport of essential goods through aerial routes at a time when the country is under a lockdown till April 14 to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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Through the scheme, the Centre wants to facilitate and stimulate regional air connectivity by taking measures such as reduced airport charges, viability gap funding and making air travel affordable.
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The ministry had launched the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme on October 21, 2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and make air travel affordable to the masses.
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The government, however, has withdrawn certain benefits for airlines opting to fly on routes under UDAN 3.1
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Overall, the ministry of civil aviation was allocated Rs 4,500 crore for 2019-20, down by 54 percent, from Rs 9,700 crore
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UDAN , which commenced in April 2017, is a regional airport development and Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) aimed at making air travel affordable.
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Under the UDAN scheme for affordable international connectivity, Assam government is likely to provide a subsidy of Rs 2,370 and Rs 4,400 for a certain number of seats on the flights operating on the Guwahati-Dhaka and Guwahati-Bangkok routes, respectively.
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Now into its second round of bidding, the Regional Connectivity Scheme has come a long way. Here's where it stands right now.
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Going by what analysts say, the Udan scheme poses a plethora of challenges for airlines that have won bids in the country's ambitious regional connectivity scheme.
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The process of selection of the routes and the operators is nearly complete and the government is likely to make an announcement on this issue in the next few days.
