Tewari demands 'point of call' status for Chandigarh airport

Member of Parliament Manish Tewari has written to Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu to make Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport as a designated Point of Call (POC) to enable foreign airlines to fly to and from here.

- Aneesha Sareen Kumar

CHANDIGARH: Member of Parliament Manish Tewari has written to Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu to make Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport as a designated Point of Call (POC) to enable foreign airlines to fly to and from here.

"The Chandigarh international airport situated in Mohali, which is now called the Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh International Airport, services the states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. A large number of people travel internationally from these three states both for the purposes of work as well as for tourism. Unfortunately, the airport has not been designated as a POC for international airlines and therefore is not on the 'bilateral offer list', which is a prerequisite for foreign airlines to fly in and out of the airport," reads the communique.