Fly by night to Northeast JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY New Delhi, May 30: Fliers to the Northeast need no longer worry about delayed flights getting inevitably cancelled after sundown because there are no night landing facilities in all but two airports of the region. Delhi is planning to upgrade all airports in the region and make night landing possible in most of them. The Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport in Guwahati, whose “international” status came minus the facilities, will finally undergo a makeover to match “international standards”. Three greenfield airports will be set up in Sikkim, Itanagar and Kohima. The government is also considering a proposal to relax norms to allow airlines operating in the Northeast to connect Guwahati to international destinations. A senior official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said the main problem for airlines and passengers travelling to the region was the short window period for flight operations. Apart from Guwahati and Agartala, no airp...
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