A large number of flights across airports and airlines, including some international carriers, were cancelled Wednesday after authorities clamped restrictions on commercial flights to and from some Northern airports amid escalating tension on the border with Pakistan.
Around 47 flights from New Delhi alone were cancelled, while 16 flights from Mumbai were not operated following the ATC barring civil aircraft movements at the Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar, Dehradun, Leh, Pathankot, and Shimla airports, among others, for about four hours since morning.
There have been a total of 47 cancellations–25 departures and 22 arrivals from the New Delhi airport, an airport official said.
Besides, four flights, including two international, airborne were diverted to Delhi, the official added.
