Foreign airlines yet to be permitted to fly to non-metro airports

The minister was replying to a question on whether the government would review the present bilateral policy facilitating foreign airlines to Kannur International Airport in Kerala which started functioning in December 2018

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India’s Minister of State for Civil Aviation, V K Singh recently said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that foreign carriers were not being granted any non-metro airport as a new point of call in the country due to “significant imbalance in the number of points of call in favour of foreign carriers”, the Times of India reported.

Singh was replying to a question on whether the government would review the present bilateral policy facilitating foreign airlines to Kannur International Airport in Kerala which started functioning in December 2018.

Kerala has been requesting permission to foreign carriers to operate out of the Kannur airport. Also, the state has wanted an extension of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Open Sky Policy to the airport

The rules stipulate that a foreign airline can operate from an airport once it is designated as a point of call. Singh also said that Indian designated carriers were free to start scheduled operations to/from any international airport, including the Kannur airport, to foreign destinations under bilateral air service agreements.

Kerala has been requesting permission to foreign carriers to operate out of the Kannur airport. Also, the state has wanted an extension of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Open Sky Policy to the airport.

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