The Shaheed Bhagat Singh Worldwide Airport in Chandigarh in spite of everything civilian flights had been cancelled on Wednesday. (Ravi Kumar/HT)
Ajay Kumar, the chief govt officer (CEO) of Chandigarh Worldwide Airport Ltd (CHIAL), confirmed that the air power has taken full management of the airport. He stated all 52 home and worldwide flights stay suspended till additional orders.
The airport caters to a number of main routes, together with Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Leh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna, Pune, and Srinagar. It provides solely two worldwide flights to Dubai and Abu Dhabi within the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Thirty-three flights, together with 12 to worldwide locations, had been cancelled on Wednesday, an Amritsar airport official stated.
Safety personnel turning passengers again at a barricade in spite of everything civilian flights had been cancelled from the Chandigarh airport on Wednesday morning. (Ravi Kumar/HT)
Passengers, who arrived on the airports on Wednesday morning, had been turned again as barricades had been put up. The Chandigarh airport sees a each day footfall of round 10,000 passengers.
Personnel of the Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF) and Punjab Police requested the passengers to return because the operation of the airport had been shut for civilian flights for the reason that early hours of Wednesday. Amritsar member of Parliament Gurjeet Singh Aujla, who was sure for Vishakhapatnam, was among the many passengers who needed to return from the airport.
“I came to board the flight to Delhi along with my family. But we have just been informed that all flights have been cancelled. Though we won’t be able to reach our destination in time, we stand with our country and its security forces. We will manage our journey using another mode,” stated Rekha, one of many passengers, outdoors the airport.