EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Air traffic resumed on Thursday after remaining suspended at Srinagar International Airport for four days due to snowfall and poor visibility.
Meanwhile, the Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for the past five days due to snowfall and landslides, resulting in sharp rise in the airfare from Srinagar to Jammu and other parts of the country.
The first flight from Delhi has landed here, officials said adding that another flight from Jammu also arrived.
Several other flights are delayed, they said.
Fresh snowfall on Sunday forced cancellation of all incoming and outgoing flights at Srinagar airport. This was followed by heavy snowfall on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they said, adding that all flights were cancelled. However, following improvement in the weather after Wednesday afternoon after fresh morning snowfall, snow clearance at run was completed last night.
Today the visibility has improved and run was fit for landing and taking off, they said. |
