Category: Civil Aviation

After remaining suspended for a day due to fresh spell of snowfall in Kashmir valley, air traffic resumed at the Srinagar airport on Sunday, authorities said. Director Srinagar Airport, Santosh Dhoke confirmed to KNO that flight operations at Srinagar Airport resumed this afternoon. Earlier this morning, the flights were delayed at the airport due to […]

Due to continuous snowfall since Saturday morning, all flights to and from the Srinagar international airport have been cancelled. As predicted by the local weather office, it started snowing in the Kashmir valley on Saturday morning. Over 3 inches of snow had accumulated on the ground at most places in the plains of the valley […]

Jammu and Kashmir Hoteliers Club highlighted the issue of frequent flight cancellation at Srinagar Airport due to low visibility and bad weather with the delegation of Parliamentary Standing Committee which is on a four-day tour to Kashmir. Interacting with the committee, J&K Hoteliers Club informed the delegation that Kashmir tourism receives major jolt due to […]

Operational restrictions have been imposed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), as part of security arrangement for ahead of Republic Day. According to airport sources, landing and takeoff would not be allowed from 10.35 a.m. to 12.15 p.m during January 20-26, excluding January 25. Accordingly, a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) has been issued. However, […]

An IndiGo Srinagar-Delhi flight Wednesday “came in close contact with a mound of snow” at the Srinagar International Airport resulting in de-boarding of all passengers, officials of the airport and the airline said. They said the flight was “held back at Srinagar and the passengers were moved to another plane”. A spokesperson of IndiGo told […]

Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor have recovered a “black box” from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board. The recovery of the device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Jakarta […]

The Indian Air Force (IAF) airlifted 75 stranded passengers of Kargil on Wednesday. “A total of 75 stranded passengers of Ladakh were airlifted on Wednesday in AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force between Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh,” an official said here. 21 passengers were airlifted from Kargil to Srinagar, 27 passengers including two […]

India on Wednesday approved a much-awaited deal worth Rs 48,000 crore to procure 83 indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas for the Indian Air Force. The decision to procure the fleet was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister NarendraModi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. “The CCS […]

After four days of flight cancellations due to the heavy snowfall, air traffic resumed at the Srinagar International Airport on Thursday but huge traffic gridlocks on way to the airport, triggered by partially cleared roads, caused inconvenience to passengers, many of whom missed flights as they were unable to reach the airport in time. Flights […]

Air traffic between Kashmir and the rest of the country was restored on Thursday after remaining suspended for four days due to snowfall in the valley, officials said. “The first flight landed at Srinagar Airport this morning. The flight is scheduled to leave for Delhi soon,” an official of the Airport Authority of India said. […]

Kashmir remained cut off from the rest of the world for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday as the Srinagar-Jammu highway remained blocked and air traffic suspended due to heavy snowfall. Officials told news agency GNS that the work is underway to clear the highway — the only surface link connecting Kashmir with the outside […]

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday the lifting of the ban on all international flights as well as land and sea entry, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The two-week ban was part of the precautionary measures against the spread of a mutant variant of coronavirus detected in a number of countries, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]