India, Jan. 20 -- After four-months hiatus triggered by the expiration of contract with Alliance Air, the Himachal cabinet on Monday allowed the Alliance Air Aviation Limited to operate 46 seater aircraft on Delhi-Shimla-Delhi and Shimla-Dharamshala-Shimla routes under the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme. The flight will operate for seven days in a week. The suspension was triggered after the memorandum of understanding between the state government and the airlines expired on September 24. The UDAN flights are operated by Alliance Air, the only airline providing services from Jubbarhatti Airport (Shimla). Its suspension had brought the air connectivity to Shimla to a halt. The approval was given in a cabinet meeting under the chairmanship of chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, which took a whole host of decisions on tourism, welfare schemes and state government employees However, even after the approval, resumption is expected to take place from April. As per the airlines officials officials the flights may resume from the summer schedule as the aircrafts that were operating on these routes have been relocated to other parts after the expiry of the MoU. Sharing details, industries minister Harshwardhan Chauhan said, "Flights from Shimla to Delhi and Shimla to Dharamshala will soon begin. The Cabinet has approved this. These flights were suspended for several months due to the expiration of the contact with Alliance Air. The resumption of these flights will benefit tourists from across the country visiting Shimla and Dharamshala. This will also boost tourism." An airline official said, "The agreement under the UDAN scheme, between the Airline, Centre and state, ended in September, though we continued operations for a few days afterward. We had been sending reminders to the government for renewal of the MoU since June last year. Our flight operations from Jubbarhatti (Shimla) Airport to Delhi, Dharamshala remain suspended until March 28."...