Silchar, May 31: Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, will halt all ATR flights to Silchar, Guwahati and Imphal from tomorrow.

The Air India subsidiary operated ATR flights daily, with a capacity of 48 passengers each, between Calcutta and Kumbhirgram airport near here.

It also used to ply a hopping flight for four days to Guwahati and three days to Imphal from here.

From now onwards, Air India will operate a flight for four days a week by an Airbus 320 aircraft between Calcutta and here.

Before returning to Calcutta, it will also take a three-day-a-week hop into Imphal, a flight distance of only 20 minutes from here.

Jet Airways will continue its daily service between Calcutta and here on a new variant of ATR that has a capacity of carrying 72 passengers.

Earlier, altogether 1,290 passengers used to fly on three flights to Calcutta from the recently refurbished Kumbhirgram airport.

Alliance Air has also withdrawn its smaller version of ATR planes from Jorhat, Lakhimpur and Tezpur.

Air India sources here said it would also wind up its flight to Umroi airport near Shillong that operated for five days a week from Calcutta.

Air India manager to Silchar airport, Debashish Dasgupta, said this afternoon that so far there was no information from its headquarters in New Delhi, regarding a review of the decision to withdraw the ATR-48 daily flights.

The Cachar unit of the BJP has appealed to civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju to review the decision.

Sources in Air India here said the inability of the DoNER ministry to subsidise the operational cost for the ATR flights has led to its decision to terminate the daily flights.