Calcutta flights deferred to Thursday

Domestic flights are resuming across the country on Monday but in Calcutta they have been deferred till Thursday following a request from the state government in view of Cyclone Amphan.

Calcutta was to have seen more than 150 flights take off and land on Monday. Airlines now have to redraw their schedule.

The civil aviation ministry held a meeting on Sunday and decided to defer flight operations in and out of Calcutta and Bagdogra to May 28.

Late on Sunday evening, the airlines were holding a video conference with officials of the directorate general of civil aviation to revise the flight schedule across the country because Calcutta’s flights were not operating, sources said.