Six-city flight ban extended till August 31
The ban on flights to Calcutta from six cities with high Covid prevalence, including Delhi and Mumbai, will be extended till August 31, officials said.
The ban was to expire on August 15.
“I am further directed to inform you that the suspension of flights from the aforesaid cities to Kolkata will continue till 31 August, 2020,” reads a letter from Bengal’s home secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to civil aviation secretary P.S. Kharola.
“We’ll announce the extension of the ban in a day or two,” said an official of the Calcutta airport.
The ban on flights to Calcutta from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad, which have been reporting a large number of Covid-19 cases every day, kicked in on July 6 following a request from the Bengal government.
