AI starts Hyderabad-Durgapur flight operation

Kolkata | Sunday | 17th February, 2019

Summary:

The flight reached Hyderabad at 4.15am.Sunday’s flight is the second service from the Greenfield airport after Air India resumed service between Delhi and Durgapur on April last year. This flight will allow passengers to catch connecting flights from Hyderabad to other states in south India at ease as they would reach Hyderabad as early as 4.30am. “The passengers were excited as the inaugural flight landed safely and fliers were greeted by airport staff. Kolkata airport has a more advanced CAT-IIIB ILS that allows pilots to touch down even when visibility is down to 50 metre. The Category-I ILS enables flights to land in low visibility of at least 800 metre Without the aid, pilots required a visibility of nearly 3,000 metre..