Srinagar
Air traffic resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for two days due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall from Srinagar International Airport, where flight services were made operational in the afternoon.
However, the morning flights from the only airport in the valley were cancelled due to poor visibility.
“The air traffic from Srinagar airport resumed after 1300 hrs following improvement in the visibility,” news agency UNI quoted an Airport official as saying.
He said all the flights after 1300 hrs were operating normally. But, the morning flights had to be cancelled due to poor visibility following cloudy weather.
Meanwhile, passengers alleged that the airfare has skyrocketed during the last two days. “As the valley was cut off from the rest of the country due to closure of Kashmir highway and Mughal road, the air ticket rates hiked many folds, despite the air traffic also remaining suspended,” Irfan Saleem, a resident of Srinagar, told UNI.
He said ticket from Srinagar to Delhi, which was being sold at Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 is being sold at Rs 10,000 to 11,000. “The authorities have been talking about capping the rates, but no such initiative has been taken so far and the common people are suffering”.
