PM Modi will land at Gannavaram Airport at around 3 pm and will be received by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan.

Air India, which has a 26.5% market share in India, flies to Europe, the United States and Canada, often crossing Pakistan’s airspace.

Terming Pakistan as a “failed state”, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Thursday said relations between New Delhi and Islamabad would never improve until a peoples’ government is elected in the neighbouring country.