Chennai: Commercial flight operations to begin from today
"Day time all weather operations for domestic commercial flights from Chennai Airport will commence from tomorrow 6 AM i.e. on 6th December, 2015. DGCA will review the situation for night operations tomorrow," read a government statement.
Four ferry flights that were parked at Chennai Airport departed for Delhi, Mumbai and Port Blair on Saturday while one Cargo flight Singcargo B747 departed for Singapore via Bangalore.
"In addition to this, four more flights have departed from Chennai upto 1700 hrs today," read a statement issued by the government.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh had, on Thursday, said that there had been 269 deaths in Tamil Nadu since the heavy rain and flooding began last month. More than 10,000 people have been rescued so far by the Army and the National Disaster Response Force.
Schools, colleges and offices in Chennai have been forced to close and exams have been postponed. Telecom companies have offered free talk-time to their customers. Mobile phone services have been partially restored.
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