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The services of Kolkata Airport have been restored after nine hours.

Due to technical glitches, the services at Kolkata airport were slowed down all of a sudden at the airport at around 5:15 p.m. on Monday.

The customers faced a lot of inconvenience due to these technical glitches at the airport.

With the continuous effort of the authorities, the services have been restored after nine hours by Tuesday morning at around 2:30 a.m.

Kaushik Bhattacharjee, the Kolkata Airport Director revealed it. In this context, the Kolkata Airport tweeted saying thanks to all the passengers and other stakeholders for their patience and cooperation.

The tweet stated that the Local Area Network has been restored after nine hours with the constant effort of authorities.

Due to bad weather in Kolkata, five Kolkata-bound flights were also diverted Monday evening.

Five Kolkata-bound flights were also diverted Monday evening owing to bad weather in the city.

A representative of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said that though the technical problem did not affect the arrival of flights to Kolkata, the bad weather including thunderstorms and subsequent rain affected it.

He said that a Singapore Airline flight was diverted to Dhaka while three others were diverted to Bhubaneswar, and one was diverted to Lucknow.

The AAI owns and manages more than 100 airports. The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata is one among them.

A technical problem was detected in the local area network (LAN) of NSCBI Airport on Monday evening. It hindered the check-in process of the passengers.

As boarding passes were issued manually to the passengers, each flight was delayed at least 20 minutes. Nearly 30 flights were delayed due to this and started late from the airport on Monday.

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