{"id":459799,"date":"2022-01-01T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T06:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459799"},"modified":"2022-01-01T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T07:36:08","slug":"omicron-bengal-government-to-suspend-direct-flights-from-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/omicron-bengal-government-to-suspend-direct-flights-from-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: Bengal government to suspend direct flights from UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengal government has informed the civil aviation ministry that direct flights from the UK to Kolkata would be suspended from January 3, citing the global and national rise in omicron infections.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata\u2019s sole weekly direct flight from the UK \u2014 an Air India flight from London \u2014 arrives every Sunday. The next Sunday is January 2. <\/p>\n<p>Bengal home secretary B.P. Gopalika\u2019s letter to the Union ministry said that every international passenger, even those from countries listed by India as \u201cnon-risk\u201d for Omicron, would be made to undergo a Covid test on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The state government has decided to temporarily and until further orders suspend all direct flights from United Kingdom to Kolkata with effect from 3rd January, 2022,\u201d said the letter to Rajiv Bansal, civil aviation secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengal government has informed the civil aviation ministry that direct flights from the UK to Kolkata would be suspended from January 3, citing the global and national rise in omicron infections. Kolkata\u2019s sole weekly direct flight from the UK \u2014 an Air India flight from London \u2014 arrives every Sunday. The next Sunday is January 2. Bengal home secretary B.P. Gopalika\u2019s letter to the Union ministry said that every international passenger, even those from countries listed by India as \u201cnon-risk\u201d for Omicron, would be made to undergo a Covid test on arrival. \u201c\u2026The state government has decided to temporarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}