Bagdogra (West Bengal): Domestic flight operations have resumed in North Bengal's Bagdogra from Thursday after a gap of two months due to Covid-19 induced lockdown.
A total of six flights will take off from Bagdogra today for Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Guhawati. Airport authorities are adhering to state government's guidelines to ensure that social distancing norms are followed and automatic electronic devices have been installed for contactless health screening at the point of departure at the airport.
A total of 120 passengers will depart for Delhi from Bagdogra today and around 180 people will arrive Bagdogra from Delhi on Thursday.
It is pertinent to be noted that domestic flight services have also resumed at Kolkata Airport. The Kolkata airport tweeted that 122 passengers from Delhi arrived in the city after two months.
"Welcome Back Passengers! #KolkataAirport saw the arrival of 122 passengers from @DelhiAirport after two long months and 40 passengers departed to #Guwahati. Proper checks were followed and regular sanitization was carried out in terminal which was abuzz with passengers,” the (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International) NSCBI airport posted on Twitter.
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Flight services recommenced in Bengal after May 25 as the officials and machinery in the state were occupied with the restoration and relief work in Amphan hit areas of the state.
The West Bengal government had recently come up with a set of guidelines for people arriving in the state in domestic flights.
According to it, those entering the state from Thursday must submit a self-declaration form stating that they have not tested positive for COVID-19 in the past two months, according to an advisory of the Health Department. The passengers will also need to undergo health screening after they arrive at the airport, the advisory said on Monday.
Arrangements for contact-less travel with social-distancing norms have been readied at the city airport to keep passengers safe from COVID-19, a top airport official said on Wednesday.
An "absolute contact-less procedure" with "least possible surface touch" will be provided to passengers from the time of entering the airport till boarding the flight under the new arrangement.(With inputs from PTI)
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