Chandigarh airport sends back chartered flight from US

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh airport may have begun international operations, but its facilities remain incomplete. The state government got a reality check, when a chartered flight from the USA with six people on board was sent to New Delhi after a four-hour wait as the airport did not have the e-immigration check facility. The plane carried a US delegation that was to participate in a programme at the Institute of Microbiology Technology, Chandigarh, Sector 39. Head of Immigration, Sanjeev Kumar refused to give any comments. Executive vice-president and chief scientific officer of Johnson & Johnson, USA, Dr Paul Stoffels, who was leading the group, was to deliver a lecture at IMTECH. The programme stood cancelled. Other facilities missing at the airport are Wi-Fi, money exchange, additional ATMs, and duty-free shops.