Kolkata:Durgapur airport is set to get its first international flight, courtesy Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Kazi Nazrul Islam University in Asansol on May 26 where she will be conferred an honorary D.Litt.
Though Hasina will be in the region the previous day as well when she travels from Kolkata to Santiniketan to attend the convocation at Visva-Bharati along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inaugurates the Bangladesh Bhavan thereafter, she will fly to Bolpur directly from Kolkata airport in a helicopter on arrival from Dhaka. She will fly back to Kolkata in the chopper.
On May 26, she will travel to the airport and board the Biman Bangladesh special flight, a Boeing 737-800, to fly down to Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport at Andal near Durgapur before driving down to the university at Asansol.
Excited about the foreign dignitary’s visit that will also herald an international carrier’s maiden flight to the fledgling airport, officials have prepared banners to welcome Sheikh Hasina. At present, the airport has only one daily operation, a direct Air India flight between Durgapur and Delhi. With over 90% load, SpiceJet is also willing to introduce flights between Durgapur and Bengaluru and Hyderabad, but wants the Bengal government to offer aviation turbine fuel at lower rates to its flights when they refuel at Kolkata airport.
20/05/18 Times of India
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Though Hasina will be in the region the previous day as well when she travels from Kolkata to Santiniketan to attend the convocation at Visva-Bharati along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inaugurates the Bangladesh Bhavan thereafter, she will fly to Bolpur directly from Kolkata airport in a helicopter on arrival from Dhaka. She will fly back to Kolkata in the chopper.
On May 26, she will travel to the airport and board the Biman Bangladesh special flight, a Boeing 737-800, to fly down to Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport at Andal near Durgapur before driving down to the university at Asansol.
Excited about the foreign dignitary’s visit that will also herald an international carrier’s maiden flight to the fledgling airport, officials have prepared banners to welcome Sheikh Hasina. At present, the airport has only one daily operation, a direct Air India flight between Durgapur and Delhi. With over 90% load, SpiceJet is also willing to introduce flights between Durgapur and Bengaluru and Hyderabad, but wants the Bengal government to offer aviation turbine fuel at lower rates to its flights when they refuel at Kolkata airport.
20/05/18 Times of India
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