Cooch Behar's air service dream shattered

Cooch Behar: Resumption of air services from the Cooch Behar airport, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed. No aircraft will land at the Cooch Behar airport or take off from there tomorrow. The officials concerned, it may be recalled, had promised to resume air services here from tomorrow, the Independence Day.
As per schedule, a trial flight was planned for 10 August. However, it did not happen as no aircraft reached here for the purpose. If the sources are to be believed, the resumption of air services here would be delayed by a month. The Cooch Behar district magistrate, Mr Rajesh Kumar Sinha said that the Cooch Behar airport is ready for the air operation.
“There is no infrastructure problem at the airport,” he added.
The AAI officials said that efforts are on to operate flights from the airport within the next three weeks.
14/08/07 The Statesman

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Categories: Airports Aug 2007, New Aug 2007