Fifty domestic flights between Calcutta and six cities — including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai — were cancelled on Monday, the first day of the two-week suspension of flights from the six cities to Bengal following a request from the state government.
Since the state had asked the Centre to suspend Calcutta-bound flights from these cities, some private airlines were planning to operate flights from Calcutta to those places. But they had to abandon the plan for the time being because of logistical problems, an airport official said.
“The airlines could not deploy aircraft coming to Calcutta from other cities to the six places because of logistic issues,” the official said. “On Monday, 42 flights operated out of Calcutta, compared with 67 on Sunday.”
