Saturday, August 29, 2020

Flexi-schedule for flights to and from six cities

Kolkata: With the state government deciding to allow three times-a-week operation from the Covid-hotlisted cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad, the civil aviation ministry has decided to create a flexi-schedule with flight operations from these cities to Kolkata on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays in the first and second week and Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the third and fourth week. There will be no flight operations on days Bengal observes a complete lockdown. Till now, September 7, 11 and 12 have been announced as complete lockdown days.
Starting September 1, the daily flight count at Kolkata airport will shoot up to 85 from 60 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. This though will be for a fortnight. From the third week, the flight count on these three days will again slip to 60 while Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will see 85 flights operate from Kolkata airport.
Announcing the flight schedule from the ‘banned’ cities, Kolkata airport’s official twitter handle requested passengers to check further schedule with concerned airlines.
Though there was no restriction on flight operations from Kolkata to these cities, airlines had till last month opted against one-way flights, citing feasibility and logistic issues. IndiGo has this month started evening fights to Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai after the airline realized those needing to travel to these airports were flying via other cities.
IndiGo Airlines, which operates the maximum number of flights in Kolkata, said the airline would continue with the one-way daily flights as per the current schedule until further order while increasing frequency on days two-way flight movement has been permitted. As per booking dates available online, the airline plans to operate five daily flights from Delhi to Kolkata, three from Chennai, two each from Pune and Ahmedabad and one each from Mumbai and Nagpur.
29/08/20 Tamaghna Banerjee/Times of India
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