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(c) Minimum Support Prices of wheat and paddy for (f) Airports Authority of India (AAI) is collecting the current marketing seasons are as under charges for 15 days of estimated operations as Security Deposit from Private Airlines Foreign Airlines are given (Rs. per qtl.) credit facilities and bills are raised fortnightly and Commodity . . M S P collections are monitored

Wheat (Rabi marketing 380 STATEMENT-I Season 1996-97) Paddy (Kharif marketing Seson, 1995-96) 1 M/s NEPC Airlines Common 360 2 M/s Archana Airways Pvt Ltd Fine 375 3 M/s Modiluft Superfine 395 4 M/s Skyline NEPC Ltd 5 M/s Jet Airways (India) Pvt Ltd (d) Yes, Sir The CIPs of rice and wheat were last 6 M/s East West Airlines revised with effect from 1 2 1994 7 M/s Sahara India Airlines

Foreign/Private Airlines List of Air Taxi Operators as on 12 7 96 1 M/s India International Airways Pvt Ltd 1037 SHRI SATYA DEO SINGH . 2 M/s Delhi Gulf Airways Services Pvt Ltd SHRI PANKAJ CHAUDHARY 3 M/s U.B. Air Pvt Ltd SHRI BANWARI LAL PUROHIT ; 4 M/s Trans Bharat Aviation Pvt Ltcf KUMARI UMA BHARATI 5 M's Saraya Aviation Pvt Ltd SHRI MRUTYUNJAYA NAYAK ; 6 M ;s Aerial Services Pvt Ltd Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION be pleased to 7 M s Jagson Airlines Ltd state : 8 M s U P Airways Pvt Ltd - (a) whether the Government propose to introduce 9 M s VIF Airways more private and foreign air services on the domestic; . 10 M/s Span Aviation I) Ltd routes; 1 1 M's Gujarat Airways (b) if so, the details in this regard. 12 M's Udan Research and Flying Institute (c) the details of private and foreign Airlines 13 M s Mesco Airlines operating in the country at present 14 M ;s Elbee Airlines Blue Dart Aviation Pvt Ltd withdrawn their services during 1995-96. 16 M s Megapode Airlines (e) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor, 17 M s Eastern Airways and 18 M s 9pan Air Taxi. (f) the steps taken by the Government to ensure 19 M/s Raymond Ltd that all the private and foreign Airlines pay the landing and other charges regularly? THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION AND MINISTER STATEMENT-II OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRI C M IBRAHIM) (a) to (c) While private airlines and Air Taxi List of foreign Airlines Operating Scheduled operators are permitted to operate domestic air services, Internationa / Air Services to through from over India foreign airlines are not entitled to operate on domestic as on 12 07 96 routes. The list of private airlines Air Taxi operators S No Name ot Airline Nationality currently operating in the country »s attached as statement-l The list ot foreign airlines operating to'from 1 2 3 India is attached as Statement-ll (d) and (e) Among the private airlines, M/s KCV 1 Aeroflot Russia Airways have withdrawn their services due to non­ 2 Air Canada Canada availability of aircraft and among the foreign airlines. 3 Air France France Tajikistan International Airlines and Tower Air have 4 Air Lanka Sn Lanka withdrawn their services from India during the year 1995- 96. 5 Air Mauritius Mauritius Written Answers JULY 18, 1996 Written A ns wers 2 2 4

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6 Air Maldives Maldives 47. Scandinavian Airline system Sweden/ Denmark/Norway 7 Air Ukraine Ukraine 48. Air Seychelles Seychelles. 8 Alitalia Italy 9 Ariana Afghan Afghanistan [E nglish] 10 Biman Bangladesh Bangladesh 1 1 British Airways United Kingdom Indian Airlines flight to Tezpur 12 Cathay Pacific United Kingdom/ Hongkong 1038. DR. ARUN KUMAR SARMA : Will the 13 Delta United States of Minister of CIVIL AVIATION be pleased to state : America (a) whether the Government propose to introduce 14 Druk Air Bhutan daily flight by Indian Airlines to Tezpur; 15 Egypt Air Egypt (b) if so. the details thereof; 16 EI-AMsreal Israel (c) if not, the reasons therefor; 17 Emirates United Arab (d) whether the Government propose to operate IC- Emirates 211 and IC-212 from Calcutta to Dibrugarh touching 18 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia Tezpur on botl. ways to the benefit of the general public; 19 Gulf Air Bahrain, Oman. and Qatar and UAE (e) if so, the details thereof9 20 Iran Air Iran THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION AND MINISTER 21 KLM Royal Dutch Netherlands OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRI C M 22 Kazakhstan Airways Kazakhstan IBRAHIM) (a) to (c). No, Sir Due to crew and capacity constraints, Indian Airlines is not in a position, at present, 23 Kenya Airways Kenya to increase its services to Tezpur 24 Korean Air Korea (d) No, Sir 25 Kuwait Airways Kuwait (e) Does not arise 26 Lufthansa Germany 27 Malaysian Airlines Malaysia Cancellation of Air India Flights 28 Oman Air Oman 29 Pakistan International Pakistan 1039. SHRI KRISHAN LAL SHARMA 30 Qantas Australia PROF. PREM SINGH CHANDUMAJRA 31 Qatar Airways Quatar SHRI SANAT KUMAR MANDAL 32 Royal Brunei Brunei Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION be pleased to Darussalam state ; 33 Royal Jordanian Jordan (a) whether the Air-lndia’ had to cancel a number 34 Royal Nepal Airlines Nepal of International flights in the month of June this year; Saudi Arabia 35 Saudia (b) if so. the flight-wise details and reasons therefor, 36 Singapore Airlines Singapore (c) whether cancellation of flights has resulted in 37 South African Airlines South Africa financial as well as marketing loss to the company; 38 Swiss Air Switzerland (d) if so. the total loss thus suffered. 39 Syrian Airlines Syria (e) whether a number of other airlines have also Tarom Romania 40 recently increased frequency of their flights to pick-up 41 Trans Mediterranean Lebanon more traffic from India; and 42 Thai Airways Thailand (f) if so, the details thereof9 43 Turkmenistan Airlines Turkmenistan THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION AND MINISTER 44 United Airlines United States of OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRI C M America IBRAHIM) (a) to (d) Due to Industrial unrest, Air India 45 Uzbekistan Airways Uzbekistan had to cancel 162 international flights during June. Yemen Air Ways - Yemenia Republic of 1996 which resulted in a revenue loss of approximately Yemen Rs. 20 41 crores. Details of flights cacelled are attached as Statement.