Vishakhapatnam airport is set for the quantum leap, for the first time in 6 decades, the airport is all set to witness night landing of commercial aircraft. SpiceJet will be the first commercial airline to use this facility from Sunday, March 30, 2008. Spicejet flight from Delhi via Hyderabad to Vishakhapatnam will land at 1920hrs and will depart for Mumbai at 1950Hrs.
Facilities for night operation at vizag were available since mid 2007 but due to shortage of manpower this was not open to commercial operations. Vizag airport is under the control of Navy and they were using the facilities for several months from now.
Night landing is allowed by breaking the time allotted for commercial operations in the afternoon. Now the flights will operate from 0800Hrs till 1400Hrs and then from 1700Hrs till 2000Hrs. CISF which is handling the security has also provided with additional manpower which will help them to manage the security of the airport.
The night landing airport is part of the Rs.195 crore airport modernizing project which also includes the new 10,000 ft. runway, ILS and construction of additional aprons etc.
We hope to see International flights at Vizag soon.
Vishakhapatnam in the night
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