Shillong: With only one flight landing at the Shillong airport, the services at the airport are unreliable. This is the reason most of the Shillong passengers including VIPs like ministers and senior bureaucrats still prefer to travel through Guwahati airport.
Due to the absence of Instruments Landing Systems which are yet to be installed the cancellation of flights due to inclement weather is very high. Flights from Kolkata to Shillong frequently fail to take off, thereby leaving passengers stranded. An aviation expert who did not wish to be named said, “What Shillong Airport needs is a Transponder Landing System (TLS) which is an all-weather, precision landing system that uses existing airborne transponder and Instrument Landing System equipment to create a precision approach at a location where an ILS would normally not be available”.
A person who recently traveled from Kolkata to Shillong on the ATR 48 said that the flight could not land at the Shillong airport due to bad weather and was diverted to Guwahati and from there they were provided vehicles to reach Shillong.
07/05/15 The Shillong Times
Due to the absence of Instruments Landing Systems which are yet to be installed the cancellation of flights due to inclement weather is very high. Flights from Kolkata to Shillong frequently fail to take off, thereby leaving passengers stranded. An aviation expert who did not wish to be named said, “What Shillong Airport needs is a Transponder Landing System (TLS) which is an all-weather, precision landing system that uses existing airborne transponder and Instrument Landing System equipment to create a precision approach at a location where an ILS would normally not be available”.
A person who recently traveled from Kolkata to Shillong on the ATR 48 said that the flight could not land at the Shillong airport due to bad weather and was diverted to Guwahati and from there they were provided vehicles to reach Shillong.
07/05/15 The Shillong Times
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