Calcutta: The first night flight passengers entered Bagdogra airport to the beat of drums at 7.30 this evening.
SG 944, a SpiceJet flight from Calcutta carrying 48 passengers, among them the north Bengal development minister Gautam Deb, was 20 minutes late, but that did not dampen the enthusiasm of tour operators and locals at the airport.
“It is a red letter day for Bagdogra and north Bengal. For several years, we wanted night landing and finally it has happened,” Deb said.
Residents across north Bengal as well as neighbouring Sikkim have been waiting for years for night-landing flights to start.
On July 1, the Indian Air Force gave its assent to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to run flights till 10pm.
Read News In full 01/10/13 Avijit Sinha & Bireswar Banerjee/Telegraph
Sunday, 6 October 2013
First night plane lands in Bagdogra
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