New Delhi: Srinagar Airport has been shut to civilian flights ollowing India’s air strikes, targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmi early on Wednesday.
IndiGo has issued a travel advisory, indicating that flights to and from Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar, Leh, Chandigarh, Dharamshala, and Bikaner are impacted due to changing airspace conditions in the region. “Due to changing airspace conditions in the region, our flights to and from #Srinagar, #Jammu, #Amritsar, #Leh, #Chandigarh and #Dharamshala are impacted. We request you to check your flight status at https://bit.ly/31paVKQ before reaching the airport,” it said in a post on X.
Air India has also cancelled all its flights to and from Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Chandigarh and Rajkot till 12 pm. “Two international flights en route to Amritsar are being diverted to Delhi,” it added.
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Similarly, SpiceJet, in a statement, said, “Due to the ongoing situation, airports in parts of northern India, including Dharamshala (DHM), Leh (IXL), Jammu (IXJ), Srinagar (SXR), and Amritsar (ATQ), are closed until further notice. Departures, arrivals, and consequential flights may be impacted. Passengers are advised to plan their journey accordingly and check flight status.”
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Early this morning, India launched Operation Sindoor, a precise and restrained response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack, in which 26 civilians were killed. The headquarters of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba groups in Muridke, were among the nine sites targeted in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir.
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