New Delhi:
Airlines have cancelled their flights to and from Kolkata on Tuesday in the wake of 24-hour long bandh call given by central trade unions to protest against price rise.
Kingfisher has cancelled 29 flights, including one international, while Jet Airways and its low cost arm JetLite have cancelled a total of 70 flights to and from the city. (
Read: List of cancelled Kingfisher flights)
Central trade unions and workers and employees federations have called the strike on September 7 protesting the rise in prices of essential commodities and petroleum products.
Strike Hits Kolkata Flights- Jet, Kingfisher cancel flights to Kolkata
- Jet, Jetlite cancels 70 flights
- Kingfisher cancels 29 flights
- SpiceJet, Indigo cancel 20 flights each
- Other flights have been preponed, postponed or combined
- Air India has also rescheduled 30 flights
- Airport is likely to be hit by All-India bandh
- Bandh called by Central Trade Unions protesting fuel price hike
Both the airlines have cancelled their flights to and from Mumbai, New Delhi, Silchar, Bagdogra, Aizwal, Ranchi, Agartala, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Patna, Chennai, Imphal, Vishakhapatnam, Bangalore and Port Blair.
Kingfisher has cancelled their Dhaka flight while Jet their flight to Bangkok.
Jet has pre-poned their Kolkata-Dhaka flight (9W-274) which would depart Kolkata at 5.30 am, while the Dhaka-Kolkata flight (9W-273) would remain postponed for tomorrow and will operate on Wednesday.
The flight would take-off from Dhaka at 0530 hrs and arrive in Kolkata at 0545 hrs (local time).
Apart from it, Jet has rescheduled their Delhi-Bagdogra-Guwahati-Delhi flight (9W-2285) which would depart Delhi at 11:15 am and arrive Guwahati at 01:45 pm.
Kingfisher has also rescheduled two of its flights, one from Bangalore and other to Hyderabad tomorrow.
The airlines has pre-poned the departure of its Kolkata-Hyderabad flight (IT 3434) which usually departs the West Bengal capital at 6:50 am would depart at 05:35 am.
Also its Bangalore-Kolkata flight (IT-3419), which originally departs Bangalore at 8.40 pm, will now take-off from there at 4.00 am on Wednesday and arrive Kolkata at 6:15 am.
"Guests are requested to note that there would be no transportation available to and from Kolkata airport while the bandh is in force," a Kingfisher spokesperson said in a statement.
The airlines have requested the passengers to contact their call centres to know about the status of their flights.