Flights from Del, Mum & 4 other cities can’t land in Kol from Mon

Kolkata: The ministry of civil aviation has announced suspension of flights to Kolkata from six Indian cities with high incidence of Covid-19 cases following a request by the Bengal government.
“No flight shall operate to Kolkata from Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Chennai and Ahmedabad from July 6 to 19 or till further order. Inconvenience caused is regretted,” the Kolkata airport Twitter handle announced on Saturday afternoon.
State chief secretary Rajiva Sinha wrote to civil aviation secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola on Tuesday, asking for an embargo on flights from these cities as well as Surat and Indore.
The flight count from Kolkata will reduce to 40 from the current 65 with this decision. Arrival of international repatriation flights has already been stopped to Kolkata following the state government’s request. This led to cancellation of five flights between July 1 and 15. Two of these flights were from the Gulf, two from the US and one from the UK.