Air Alliance -Air India flight soon at Shimla Airport

An Air Alliance -Air India flight will soon fly at Delhi-Shimla  air route. No flight was running on the airport since 2012. Chairmanship of Airport Advisory Committee and Member of Parliament Mr Suresh Kashyap said after the meeting of AAC at Civil Airport Shimla here today.
Suresh Kashyap said that Alliance Air-Air India is going to start its flight ( probably from January to February) next year and Pawan Hans running Heli-taxi service on the airport also is going to add additional route so that movement of passengers between Shimla and Chandigarh could be increased .
Presently heli taxi facility under UDAN- 2 by Pawan Hans is running on Chandigarh Shimla to be made economical so that more people could afford the flight and new charges for air ticket is being planned by Pawan Hans.
To add more Heli-taxi service UDAN-3 scheme is under consideration with the operator- Heritage new helicopter services  would be expanded between Dharamshala- Shimla, Kullu- Shimla, Chandigarh -Shimla, Hindon- Shimla flight routes, MP said. 
 BJP president said that the aircraft flying from Shimla airport should also have more publicity.
After expansion runway ATR-42- 600 series aircraft would land on airport Shimla which is proposed to be expanded by filling the deep gorges.
 Suresh Kashyap said that the expansion of the air strip should be done soon, which will give wings to tourism in Shimla.
 He asked the airport Authority to set up a cab counter  on the airport to help local taxi and cab operators and the traffic fare should be fixed.
During the meeting official raised the issue of various problems regarding expansion of airport .
Airport official said in the meeting that Forest Department did not accorded the proposal to fell green trees as the  approval has pending at the government level.
Mr Suresh Kashyap assured the official that government would work on it soon.
He said that decision to expand the runway by 300 meters to be taken after Supreme Court hearing the matter of green felling .
The runway would require acquisition of  123 bighas land from to increased the more length and space.
He said that current Shimla airport road is narrow which would be provided an alternate route for smooth movement of traffic between Shimla and airport.
The road from Tutu to Shimla Airport should also be repaired soon and maximum street lights should also be installed on this route. 
The airport authority would also install solar lights on this route, for this, the electricity department would provide high tension wire.
During the meeting tourism department made some proposals to increase the facility of home stay near the airport, so that the visiting tourists would get convenience.
AAC was informed that Airport recorded about 1431 arrival & departures flights in 2019-20, 626 in 2020-21 and 264 in 2021-22 till 31st August, he added

The Airport Advisory committee would be met once in every 6 months. The official of Airports Authority of India and Airport directors Anil Kumar Saini, Sandeep Sagar, Karan Nanda, Kapil Thakur, Satinder Shandilya, Puneet Sharma, Neeraj Chaudhary, Vipul Vidya, DP Singh, Bhag Mal and Sumed Sharma were present in the meeting. Table top Shimla Airport  is  considered among world dangerous runway which  established in 1987 and is built on 109 acres of land.