Frequent flight cancellations troubling Mizoram air travellers

Aizawl: Air travellers in Mizoram have been suffering harassment for a long time because of frequent cancellation and diversion of flights, not to speak of delays, from Kolkata and Guwahati to the state's lone Lengpui airport.
Only in the first week of last month hundreds of passengers, including students, officials and sick people, were stranded for almost a week in Aizawl, Kolkata and Guwahati because of cancellation of flights.
As the air link is the only option available to travellers to visit other parts of the country apart from the National Highway 54, which is often rendered useless either in Assam or Meghalaya due to landslides, flight cancellations mean Mizoram gets cut off from the rest of the country.
There is a railhead at Bairabi which has links with Lalabazar in Assam, but it is a meter-gauged train and is never used by travellers bound for other parts of the country.
The flight disruptions are mostly because of the delay in the commissioning of the Instrumental Landing System (ILS) by the Airport Authority of India in the table-top airport.
08/07/10 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010