SHILLONG: The North Eastern Council (NEC) has denied the news report appeared in a section of the press that Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, would discontinue its services from June 1 from Umroi airport due to irregular payment of viability gap funding by the Council.
An NEC official on Thursday told The Shillong Times that the Alliance Air might stop its service since the agreement was valid till May 31.
However, the NEC has already sent a proposal to the Ministry of Civil Aviation to extend the agreement by another three months. Stating that the NEC was confident that the agreement would be extended, the official said that a seven or eight-seater aircraft would probably start its service from the Shillong Airport on June 4 and it would connect Shillong with other Northeastern state.
In June last year, the Union civil aviation ministry had directed Air India to resume the flight to Shillong after it was suspended from January 2013.
So far, Umroi Airport is connected with Kolkata as lone ATR flight operates from the airport for five days a week.
“In a month or two 35 seater aircraft operated by Seven Sisters would be brought to the airport and they would operate from there,” the NEC official said.