After a period of over four decades, Cathay Pacific is set make an come back to the city of joy.
Hong Kong-based Dragonair, a sister airline of Cathay Pacific Airways, plans to operate a direct flight between Kolkata and Hong Kong in a couple of months.
Subject to government approval, and the opening of the new airport terminal in Kolkata, the service to Kolkata will commence in winter 2012 with four flights a week operated by an Airbus A320.
“We plan to start the service from Kolkata by October once it gets the airport authorities’ approval after the completion of integrated terminal of Kolkata airport,” Tom Wright, General Manger, South Asia, Middle East and Africa, Dragonair said.
This marks the return Cathay Pacific in Bengal which flew into Kolkata in 1953, bid adieu to the city in 1970.