Bengal government nod to daily flights from Delhi

The Bengal government on Monday gave the green light to resumption of daily flights from Delhi to Calcutta “with immediate effect”, but the restrictions on flights from five other cities will continue.

Several airlines said they would take a few days to resume daily flights from Delhi to Calcutta because of operational and other issues.

The decision to allow daily flights from Delhi to Calcutta was taken after the director of the city’s airport requested chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday to ease the restrictions, sources said.

Mamata was at the airport on Monday to catch a flight to Bagdogra. The sources said airport director Kaushik Bhattacharya requested her to lift the restrictions.