The state government will request the Centre to make the direct Calcutta-London flight “permanent”, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.
“The Calcutta-London flight has just started. But it is still operating twice a week. I request the civil aviation ministry to increase the frequency and make it permanent,” Mamata said at a programme to unveil two open-roof double-decker buses that would take tourists to heritage spots of the city.
Air India is operating twice-a-week flights between Calcutta and London from September. The flights were initially operated under the Vande Bharat programme (launched to bring back Indians stranded abroad during the Covid pandemic) and now as part of an air transport bubble scheme, an understanding between two countries to operate commercial flights.
