MP Requests Prime Minister to Declare Car Nicobar Airport as Alternate Airport to Port Blair Airport to Scale back Airfare

Tarun Karthick

Port Blair, 10 April 2023

Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has requested the Prime Minister to declare the Defence Airfield at Car Nicobar as Alternate Airport for Port Blair Airport. 

Alternate airports are airports marked alongside an plane’s flight plan that may safely accommodate the touchdown of the plane ought to the plane expertise an emergency or if the touchdown on the meant airport turns into inadvisable.

According to the Member of Parliament, the Alternate Airport to Port Blair is at the moment situated in overseas international locations. The location of the Alternate Airport to Port Blair in a Foreign Country tremendously will increase the price of airfare.

MP defined that Car Nicobar Airport is far nearer to Port Blair and has the required infrastructure to help business flights. He added that declaring Car Nicobar Airport because the alternate Airport to Port Blair would considerably scale back the price of the airfare and make it extra reasonably priced for vacationers and locals to journey between mainland cities and Port Blair.