KOLKATA: With the rise in the number of flights and passengers at the airport owing to the resumption of international operations and the introduction of summer schedule, violations involving VIP vehicles — an old problem at the airport — is back again. The authorities have designated a free parking zone 100m before the airport gates to prevent unauthorised parking of VIP and police vehicles in front of the terminal but are still struggling to stop violations.
“We have set up a separate channel on the approach road to the arrival gates of the terminal where VIP cars can be parked under the shade of the elevated road that goes till the departure terminal. However, drivers of VIP vehicles still park on the space in front of the airport terminal and crowd the gates. We do plead before them to remove their vehicles and park them at the designated zone but on most occasions, they don’t pay heed and we don’t dare to book them either,” said an official of the parking agency employed by the airport authorities.
