All flights to Srinagar cancelled at Chandigarh airport

CHANDIGARH: Flights to Srinagar have been cancelled at Chandigarh airport in view of the emergency after cross-border shelling at the LoC on Wednesday morning. Srinagar airport is the single international airport in Jammu & Kashmir region.


According to Chandigarh International Airport Authority Limited (CHIAL), all commercial flights from Chandigarh airport are operating. Only Chandigarh-Srinagar flights have been cancelled.

Officials said they received instructions from air traffic controllers that the airports have been shut for civilian flights. Four other airports - Leh, Jammu, Chandigarh and Amritsar - have also been shut or flight movements have been restricted.

This was done soon after a Mi-17 Transport chopper crashed in Kashmir's Budgam district, officials said.

The flare up in the cross-LoC shelling, which was initiated by Pakistani troops in early hours of Wednesday, has also resulted in security forces and other establishments being put on a heightened alert.