NEW DELHI: About 11,000 individuals – largely peak summer season season holidayers – are anticipated to have flown out of Srinagar on Wednesday, a day after the Pahalgam assault. Airport sources say Srinagar on a median sees 52 plane arrivals and as many departures day by day with 10,000-12,000 passengers (about half of them arrivals and half departures) in non-peak and 16,000-18,000 within the present peak season, experiences Saurabh Sinha.
Srinagar Airport, which handles flights from 6 am to 10 pm, on Wednesday noticed 9,251 passengers fly out on 47 flights until 7pm. With a number of extra flights within the remaining three hours, this quantity is predicted to swell additional by anyplace as much as 2,000.
Given the exodus, airways, together with Air India, IndiGo and AI Categorical, operated seven additional flights on Wednesday to fly out individuals from there. Srinagar-bound flights noticed a lot of passenger cancellations.
The frenzy to fly out brought about fares for flights out of Srinagar to briefly rise to as excessive as Rs 32,000 for a one-way journey to Delhi, prompting govt to step in.