Summary:
The first international flight between Gannavaram Airport and Singapore will run as scheduled on October 25. VIJAYAWADA: The Customs department here notified Gannavaram airport as an international one on Wednesday night. The flight will run on every Tuesday and Thursday of the week. The standoff between the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Customs department was resolved with the intervention of AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu and the Union civil aviation ministry. IndiGo will operate the service between Gannavaram and Singapore with the help of Viability Gap Funding provided by the Andhra Pradesh government.An Airbus A-320 flight will be operational on a bi-weekly schedule with a capacity of 180 passengers for each trip.The first flight will reach Gannavaram on October 25 at 4.20pm from Singapore and will depart the same day at 6pm..