The airlines connectivity will further expand in the northeastern region. The air connectivity under the Regional Connectivity Scheme-Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik scheme of the central government, a new private airliner on Monday started flight operations between Assam’s Guwahati and Arunachal Pradesh’s Pasighat.

Airport Authority of India officials said that a private flight Flybig on Monday started the direct flight services from Guwahati to Pasighat. The AAI official said that this is the second flight services to Pasighat from Guwahati after Alliance Air had started direct flight services between Guwahati-Pasighat in 2018, an RCS-UDAN route. The newly developed commercial operations of flights from Rupsi Airport in western Assam began earlier this month. The AAI is also developing the Hollongi airport in Arunachal Pradesh, boosting air connectivity in the mountainous areas.

There are 15 airports in the northeast region – Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Lilalabari and Rupsi (Assam), Tezu and Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh), Agartala (Tripura), Imphal (Manipur), Shillong (Meghalaya), Dimapur (Nagaland), Lengpui (Mizoram) and Pakyong (Sikkim).

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