In North Bengal's Bagdogra Airport is going to get night landing facility which will allow airlines to launch to and fro evening flights from the city. On May 29, at a meeting with Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, Arun Mishra, Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), indicated that the aviation regulator would take steps to install night landing facility at Bagdogra airport, Mishra said in Kolkata.    

Vikram Sen, Principal Secretary Tourism, West Bengal, said a high-level meeting among the Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials, representatives from Ministry of Civil Aviation and West Bengal government and DGCA said that night landing facility can be started in the next couple of months.    

The DGCA informed that some administrative issues have to be dealt with and the airport authority would require additional Indian Air Force personnel to initiate the facility apart from technology installation, Sen said. The DGCA would approach the Ministry of Defence in this regard shortly, he added.    

Major airlines such as IndiGo and Jet Airways have given proposals to the Chief Minister on new routes to and from Kolkata, said Amit Mitra, the State Minister of Finance. Mitra said they would also like to introduce special packages during Durga Puja in order to boost tourism.