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Flights will once again resume from Visakhapatnam airport after the cyclone Hudhud with Air India operating flights to New Delhi and Hyderabad from Friday.
Union Minister of Civil Aviation P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju said here on Thursday that this was, perhaps for the first time in the world that an airport was made operational in less than a week after it was hit by a ‘cyclone of this magnitude’. Commending the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the civil aviation industry on achieving the Herculean task in a record time, he attributed the achievement to the collective efforts of the officials and the employees of AAI.
He said that skeletal services were being resumed from Friday without compromising on safety and security. Private operators like Air Costa, SpiceJet and IndiGo were expected to begin tentative operations from October 18.
The minister said that international flights were expected to begin operations from November 1 once the immigration facilities were revived at the airport. The radar antenna, which was completely damaged, would be made functional within a month.
He said that it would take at least one month for restoration of all the 21 flights operating out of Visakhapatnam and about three months for restoration of all amenities at the airport.
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