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| JK admin’s Dubai dreams face hiccups! | | Direct flight to UAE face cancellations for ‘mysterious reasons’ | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1: Even as the government of Jammu and Kashmir has been talking tall about its recent trip to Dubai and prospective business returns worth millions from the United Arab Emirates, the direct flights to the UAE have been facing frequent cancellations for “mysterious reasons.”
The market players said Srinagar-Sharjah flight that was started on October 21, 2021, was running smoothly till January 21 but that it was witnessing cancellations since.
Ironically just days before the cancellations erupted, the high level team from J&K government led by the Raj Bhawan had visited the UAE.
Sources in the travel industry said the chances of any flights operating between Sharjah and Srinagar in February look bleak.
Market pundits said most of the web portals are not showing any such flight from the Srinagar airport this month.
A market player said the flights were getting cancelled “quite frequently and abruptly for reasons which are not being made clear to the prospective fliers.”
The market players said the administration in Jammu and Kashmir was using Dubai trips as an “excuse to give a rosy picture of governance.”
The reality is that the official trips of the J&K administration to Dubai have been more about “picnicking overseas to enjoy the luxuries of the Middle East.”
A senior official in the Jammu and Kashmir government however downplayed the issue of flight cancellations to the UAE. “It seems to be because of the Covid spike but we have good ties with Dubai and Sharjah,” the official told the Early Times on the condition of anonymity.
In the recent weeks some of the senior officials in the Jammu and Kashmir government were seen enjoying luxuries like stay in swanky hotels, playing golf on the Dubai greens during their official trips.
Its pertinent to mention that both Dubai and Sharjah which fall next to each other are part of the United Arab Emirates. |
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