Navy allows more intelnational flights from Vizag

Vishakhapatnam: The Navy officials have finally agreed to extend the hours of operations of local airport by three more hours to accommodate international services to Visakhapatnam. The development was a result of Union minister D Purandeswari's interaction with Eastern Naval Command chief Anil Chopra here on Friday. She requested the ENC chief to extend airport timings for another three hours thrice a week to facilitate international services. At present, flights at the airport are allowed to operate between 8 am and 8 pm. The navy officials have now said that international flights can be allowed to land till 11 pm.
Silk Air of Singapore has showed interest to run a direct flight from Visakhapatnam to Singapore and had requested the navy officials to give them permission to land their aircraft in Vizag at 10 pm. However, with the navy officials not responding, the airline was forced to cancel its road shows for introducing the flight.
14/07/12 Times of India

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Categories: airports Jul 2012