{"id":7092,"date":"2020-07-18T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2020-07-18T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:02:52","slug":"kolkata-airport-extends-flight-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=7092","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata airport extends flight curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata has extended the restrictions on incoming flights from six cities till July 31. <\/p>\n

Airport\u2019s director Kaushik Bhattachrya said the extension was made on an appeal from the State government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restriction on arriving flights to #KolkataAirport from 6 cities viz Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Nagpur & Ahmedabad has been extended upto 31st July,\u201d the airport tweeted from its official handle.<\/p>\n

Incoming flights from the six cities were first cancelled from July 6 to July 19. West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha had written to the Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, P.S. Kharola on June 30 urging him to stop flights to Kolkata from places of high COVID-19 prevalence. <\/p>\n

The Kolkata Airport director said that the airport was operating about 90 flights daily \u2014 45 arrivals and 45 departures. \u201cOnly special repatriation flights from international destinations are allowed after an approval from the State government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata has extended the restrictions on incoming flights from six cities till July 31. Airport\u2019s director Kaushik Bhattachrya said the extension was made on an appeal from the State government. \u201cThe restriction on arriving flights to #KolkataAirport from 6 cities viz Delhi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/24THEVACUATE.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}