Preet Kaur Gill MP has galvanised 11 other West Midlands MPs with large Punjabi and Sikh diaspora communities, to continue the campaign for flights from Birmingham to Amritsar to be restored.
With more than 130,000 Sikhs in the West Midlands, MP's have now written to Mr Nipun Aggarwal, CCO of Air India, asking that regular and direct flight from Birmingham to Amritsar be reviewed. Direct flights resumed last August as Covid travel restrictions relaxed, however the regularity of flights has remained significantly scaled down. Currently there is only one direct flight per week to Amritsar, Punjab from Birmingham International Airport.
This follows correspondence from the group of 12 MP's to the CEO of Birmingham Airport (you can read that letter here) and is ahead of Airport directors meeting with Air India.
MP's include:
Preet Kaur Gill Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Edgbaston
Taiwo Owatemi Member of Parliament for Coventry North West
Paulette Hamilton Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Erdington
Tahir Ali Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Hall Green
Liam Byrne Member of Parliament for Hodge Hill
John Spellar Member of Parliament for Warley
Shabana Mahmood Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood
Khalid Mahmood Member of Parliament for Perry Barr
Steve McCabe Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Selly Oak
Jess Phillips Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Yardley
The Rt Hon Valerie Vaz Member of Parliament for Walsall South
Pat McFadden Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East
Read the full letter here:
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