Night Flights Facility Available at Srinagar, But No Response From Commercial Airlines.

Night flights facility is available at Srinagar international Airport, but the airlines are yet to respond about the proper night flight operations.

“We have informed almost all the Airlines that they can use the Srinagar Airport runway for night landing, but so far they have not responded,” Director Srinagar Airport Kuldeep Singh told the news agency.

Kuldeep Singh said that all the facilities for night flight operations are available at the airport. “If any airline is interested in flying the night flights like Srinagar Mumbai, Delhi, or other destinations, they can use the facilities at the Airport,” he said.

“We have conveyed the message to all the Airlines and now it is up to them to make their decision. If we are running the last flight from Srinagar at 7.30 PM, we can also run a flight at 11 Pm. We have all facilities available here in the Airport for night flight operations”, he said.

Sources said that the all necessary permissions for night-landing operations have been granted and that extending hours of operations at Srinagar Airport will provide a great boost to aviation activities and tourism sector in Kashmir.

At present, the last flight from the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir takes off at 7: 30 pm. Once night flying operations begin, this is expected to be extended till 11 pm.

Officials informed that after the Indian Air Force and Defence Ministry gave nod to the operation of night flights at Srinagar Airport, the then government had decided to start night operations from lone airport in the summer capital from February 2016.However, the facility could not take off due to poor response and fear of losses by airlines.

However it is to be mentioned here that in the month of March this year the Srinagar airport was technically cleared for night operations.