Port Blair, Jan 27: The second night charter flight by Go Air operated smoothly on 26th January, 2016, despite facing hiccups of bad weather and shortage of CISF staffs at Port Blair.
Despite overcast and rain, the Go Air charter flight with 137 tourists landed safely at the recently upgraded Port Blair airport at 1:35 am on 26.01.2016 from Bengaluru and departed for Bengaluru with 154 outgoing tourists, who visited Port Blair in the first charter flight on 21.01.2016.
Reacting quickly on the constraints of shortage of CISF manpower for security services at the airport during the extended operational hours at night, A & N Administration under the direction of Lt. Governor, A& N Islands, Lt. Gen. A.K. Singh (Retd) took up the matter with AAI headquarter and arranged for immediate deployment of 24 additional CISF personnel to work during the extended night hours.
“The third charter flight by Go Air will be operated on 31.01.2016,” Mr. N K Sharma, the Secretary of Home Affairs said in a press release today.
Meanwhile, it has been learnt that the much awaited charter flight on Kolkata-Port Blair-Kolkata sector is expected to start in February, 2016.
“The Civil Aviation Department is pursuing this matter vigorously,” Sharma added.
