Some commercial flights restarted from Chennai on Sunday after being suspended since Dec. 2 as the southern Indian city struggled to limp back from its worst deluge in a century.
Daytime operations for domestic flights will begin from Sunday morning, according to a late Saturday statement on India’s Press Information Bureau website. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the regulator, will decide on night operations on Sunday.
A threefold increase in seasonal rainfall led to overflowing lakes and reservoirs wreaking havoc across a vast swathe of the metropolis of 9 million people and its surrounding areas. The Times of India reported 450 rain-related deaths as of Dec. 5, and the toll is expected to rise.
06/12/15 Debjit Chakraborty & Ganesh Nagarajan/Bloomberg Business
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Daytime operations for domestic flights will begin from Sunday morning, according to a late Saturday statement on India’s Press Information Bureau website. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the regulator, will decide on night operations on Sunday.
A threefold increase in seasonal rainfall led to overflowing lakes and reservoirs wreaking havoc across a vast swathe of the metropolis of 9 million people and its surrounding areas. The Times of India reported 450 rain-related deaths as of Dec. 5, and the toll is expected to rise.
06/12/15 Debjit Chakraborty & Ganesh Nagarajan/Bloomberg Business
