India's high and mighty will vie with each other to get the earliest landing permission at the Chandigarh airport on Wednesday. The India-Pakistan semi final at the PCA stadium in Mohali is about to witness the biggest ever jamboree of VVIPs, industrialists and film stars.
It is being believed that the IAF controlled small airport will have Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's special aircraft hovering above itself around noon. This will be followed by Indian PM Manmohan Singh's entourage.
With at least six special flights operated by commercial airlines and about 50 private aircrafts expected to land during the day, Chandigarh airport might even match the busiest airports like Delhi and Mumbai by this afternoon.
The who's who of India Inc and Bollywood are also expected to be eying landing space at this airport today. Mukesh and Anil Ambani, Sharad Pawar, Vijay Mallya, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sunil Shetty, Anil Agarwal and the Hindujas are said to be flying in today.
These special flights will be in addition to regular flights operated by scheduled airlines from this city. With the additional flights, the total number of arrivals and departures from Chandigarh is expected to touch 135!
As flights are not permitted to take off or land from Chandigarh during nightime, the authorities have given special permission to aircrafts from this special day. However the authroities have made it clear that the private aircrafts willnot be given permission to park themselves at the airport. These aircrafts will have to drop their 'gliteratti' and then head towards Dehradun, delhi, Amristsar air Jaipur to await their pick ups back from C'garh.
So expect a host of Airbuses, Bombardiers and Hawkers hovering over the tri-city today awaiting landing permission.
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