Vizag to have its first night flight on Saturday

Visakhapatnam: On Sunday, Visakhapatnam will have its first night flight flying in and out of the city airport.
The much-awaited historical moment will come true at Visakhapatnam airport, when a flight operated by SpiceJet Airlines will land at 7.20 pm arriving from Hyderabad. The same flight will take off for Hyderabad at 7.50 pm.
Though the airport infrastructure was upgraded with various facilities including night-landing facility about eight months ago, no evening flights were operated till now.
The Navy used the night-landing facility for its flights but the services were not extended to civil flights due to less manpower and lack of other facilities. People?s representatives, officials, businessmen and locals made repeated pleas to operate evening flights which would help them to travel frequently, in and out of the city.
Recently, the Navy agreed to extend its manpower and the Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approved the proposal to start the evening flights.
30/03/08 Newindpress

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Categories: Airports Mar 2008