The Kolkata airport authorities started making announcements on Thursday asking all passengers to wear masks. Officials said they have set up a surveillance team that would from Friday slap fines on ...

The last few kilometres of roads in northeast Kolkata leading to the airport are a traffic mess. A meeting of the airport advisory committee on Tuesday discussed how traffic congestion was leading to...

A task force, formed with representatives of the state government, airlines and tour operators, will meet regularly to discuss passenger grievances, operational issues of airlines and how to promote d...

“At times several passengers of a particular flight are stuck in security check queues, delaying the flight,” said an airline official. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is res...

The situation was similar at one of the prepaid taxi booking counters outside the terminal that he visited. “Hundreds of people had queued up for taxis,” he recounted. After several app c...

Officials of international airlines said Kolkata still did not have enough corporate passengers for a flight to Europe or the US to sustain. They also pointed at the lack of enough initiative by the A...

Airport officials said no new international airline was approaching the authorities for slots from Kolkata. Despite resumption of regular flights after a gap of two years, the city does not have dire...

“We will look into the matter and try to ensure that there is no congestion in front of the terminal building as well as the exit lanes of the airport,” said an officer of the Bidhannagar ...

All over the city most roads have an undulating stretch as a result of patchwork repairs that result in an extremely bumpy ride. For many years, all that VIP Road got was patchwork repairs that peele...

With the number of daily new cases now going down rapidly, passenger footfall and flights have started going up again, said officials. “In the last five days, we have seen a growth in the numbe...