Evening is new morning at airport

Calcutta: The morning rush-hour madness at Calcutta airport is prompting frequent fliers to take late-evening or night flights a day before to ensure they do not miss appointments.
“Over the past few months, many fliers with confirmed tickets have been rescheduling their departures to the evening or night before as they don’t want to take the strain of standing in snaking queues in the morning and risk missing flights,” Anil Punjabi, the chairman (east) of the Travel Agents Federation of India, said.
Last month, ophthalmologist Vivek Verma missed a morning flight to Delhi — and a surgery scheduled for that afternoon — despite reaching the airport two hours before the scheduled departure.
“My flight was to take off at 9.05am, but I was stuck in a long queue from the entry to the terminal to security check. The airline couldn’t put me on any other morning flight and I reached Delhi in the afternoon, by which time the surgery had been postponed,” Verma told Metro.
Business travellers account for the majority of those rescheduling their flights to avoid the stress of morning travel from the city airport, tour operators said.
27/06/11 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jun 2011