More than 200 flights cancelled, several airports closed after Operation Sindoor
More than 200 flights were cancelled on Wednesday after the Indian military launched strikes on suspected terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam attack, India Today reported.
Several airports in North India were shut and civil flights were suspended at Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar airport, officials said. Delhi airport said that some flights were impacted due to changing airspace restrictions.
The airports in Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Hindon (in Ghaziabad), Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kishangarh, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Gwalior and Dharamshala will be closed till 5.30 am on Saturday, or flights to and from those destinations will be cancelled, airlines said.
IndiGo said that more than 165 of its flights from several domestic airports would be suspended till Saturday due to airspace restrictions, PTI reported.
Flights were also affected in Pakistan. Foreign airlines such as Qatar Airways said they had suspended flights to the country due to airspace closure.
On Wednesday, the Indian military carried out strikes on what it said were terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. The Indian armed forces targeted nine sites as part of Operation Sindoor, the defence ministry had said.
After carrying out the strikes, the ministry said that its actions had been “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature”.
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