Budget carrier GoAir cancelled its flights on the Kolkata-Bhubaneswar and Mumbai-Bhubaneswar routes for Friday, owing to cyclone Fani and provide full refund to the passengers for its action.
The extremely severe cyclonic storm is expected to hit the Odisha coast on Friday. “Owing to cyclonic storm Fani, the flights on the Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata and Mumbai-Bhubaneswar-Mumbai routes stand cancelled for May 3,” GoAir said in a statement Thursday.
Earlier the airline had also announced waving of the rescheduling/ cancellations for its flights to and from Bhubaneswar, Kolkata and Ranchi between May 2 and May 5 in the wake of the cyclone. The operations of various domestic airlines have already been affected due to the oncoming cyclone.
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On Thursday afternoon, ‘Fani’ was seen centred over the west-central parts of the Bay of Bengal about 320 km south-southwest of Puri and 170 km south-southeast of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, according to the latest IMD bulletin.
The Odisha government led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been coordinating exhaustive planning process for rescue and relief operations that involve National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Orissa Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), Indian Army, the Navy and Indian Air Force along with the Coast Guard.