A Jet Airways flight stranded at the Chennai airport.
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“It may take at the least 2-3 days to clear the airport for operations”, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation stated.
Additional flights include two daily flights from Bengaluru to Mumbai to Bengaluru, one flight from Bengaluru to Delhi, and one flight from Bengaluru to Hyderabad to Bengaluru. Significantly, Government had on Thursday allowed some domestic airlines to carry out limited commercial operations from the Rajali Naval Air Station near Arakkonam, with a fixed ticket price of Rs 1,000 for Southern destinations and Rs 2,000, after national carrier Air India landed a passenger flight at the naval air station.
About 34 aircraft of various airlines were stranded at the airport due to the flooding caused by torrential rains.
Officials said the next step will be limited commercial flight operations, after power supply resumes.
Following inspection of runway and different areas, the aerodrome was declared out there for restricted day time operations, underneath visible meteorological circumstances for technical ferry and aid flight from Chennai airport, and subsequently improve to all climate operations as and when amenities are restored, an AAI assertion had stated.
“Chennai Aerodrome has been closed as much as 12 midday of the December 6, 2015”.
Flight services in and out of Chennai Airport were suspended yesterday due to the heavy rains and water logging on the runway and the Airports Authority of India had also issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) to all air operators in this regard.
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Chennai floods have ravaged the city and travellers are facing as many problems as the residents if not more as their schedules have gone awry and they are having to fend for themselves in a unusual place.
