Vizag airport to work from Friday

Visakhapatnam: Cyclone-hammered Visakhapatnam airport will commence operations from Friday and from Saturday, the full-fledged operations would be launched.

An Air India will flight is scheduled to land in Vizag airport on Friday afternoon and after an hour it will take off for Hyderabad airport.
Though the roof of the airport which was built in February 2009 was severely damaged, the runway and air traffic control tower were spared by the cyclone.
The computer systems, which suffered damage, would be repaired by tomorrow. Meanwhile, the authorities have decided to issue boarding passes manually  for some days.Officials assured that airport will be ready by the end of this month and International flights would be operated from November 1.