altitude of 10,000 ft. The aircraft was dependent on ground-based en route navigational facilities and these were few and far between on many of the legs. Flying exclusively at night and negotiating violent storms called Kal baisakhi, followed by the Monsoon and in the absence of Radio navigation aids it became advisable to discontinue the operation. During the early 1990s, Vayudoot used leased aircraft from Royal Nepal Airlines and Ariana Afghan Airlines to run night metro flights between New Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore. Aircraft such as the Boeing 757 and Boeing 727 were used. Destinations Vayudoot flew to over 100 destinations during its existence. Andhra Pradesh Cuddapah – Cuddapah Airport Hyderabad – Begumpet Airport Puttaparthi – Sri Sathya Sai Airport Rajamahendravaram – Rajamahendravaram Airport Ramagundam – Ramagundam Airport Tirupati – Tirupati Airport Vijayawada – Vijayawada Airport Visakhapatnam – Visakhapatnam Airport Warangal – Warangal Airport Arunachal Pradesh Along – Along Airport Daporijo – Daporijo Airport Pasighat – Pasighat Airport Tezu– Tezu Airport Ziro – Ziro Airport Assam Dibrugarh – Dibrugarh Airport Guwahati – Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Jorhat – Jorhat Airport North Lakhimpur – Lilabari Airport Rupsi – Rupsi Airport Silchar – Silchar Airport Tezpur – Tezpur Airport Daman and Diu Diu – Diu Airport Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport Gujarat Ahmedabad – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport Baroda – Civil Airport Harni Jamnagar – Jamnagar Airport Kandla – Kandla Airport Keshod – Keshod Airport Porbandar – Porbandar Airport Rajkot – Rajkot Airport Surat – Surat Airport Haryana Chandigarh – Chandigarh Airport Hisar – Hisar Airport Himachal Pradesh Dharamsala – Gaggal Airport Kullu – Bhuntar Airport Shimla – Shimla Airport Karnataka Bangalore – HAL Airport Belgaum – Belgaum Airport Bellary – Bellary Airport Mangalore – Mangalore Airport Hubli – Hubli Airport Hassan – Hassan Airport Raichur – Raichur Airport Mysore – Mysore Airport Kerala Calicut – Calicut Airport Kochi – Willingdon Island Airport (now INS Garuda) Trivandrum – Trivandrum Airport Lakshadweep Agatti – Agatti Aerodrome Madhya Pradesh Bhopal – Raja Bhoj Airport Guna – Guna Airport Gwalior – Gwalior Airport Indore – Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport Jabalpur – Jabalpur Airport Khajuraho – Khajuraho Airport Rewa – Reva Airport Satna – Satna Airport Ujjain – Ujjain Airport Bilaspur – Bilaspur (Chakarbhata) Airport Raipur – Raipur (Mana) Airport Maharashtra Akola – Akola Airport Aurangabad – Aurangabad Airport Kolhapur – Kolhapur Airport Mumbai – Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Nagpur – Nagpur Airport Nanded