Navy controls Visakhapatnam airport

Visakhapatnam: It was often accused that since the local airport was controlled by Indian Navy, it took many long years for it to get operational 24/7. After so many pleas from the local public representatives and threatening calls by locals of agitations, finally defence ministry agreed for 24/7 operations last year which helped the airport to connect to international destinations like Dubai and Singapore.

Though international carriers like Silk Air were ready to start flights to Singapore, they held back the proposal fro sometime since  the navy was not willing to run the airport 24/7. Later ENC operated the airport partially from 8am to 11 pm and only recently that the  airport was opened 24/7. Now Air India operates a flight to Dubai and Silk Air to Singapore thrice in a week.  Proposals are in the pipeline by Air Arabia to launch flights to Middle East and Gulf countries. Many domestic air carriers are also willing to operate late evening flights.