Flight operations resume at Srinagar airport after clearing snow from runway

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 The Airports Authority of India, successful adjacent coordination with BRO, successfully cleared the apron and taxiways connected January 24, 2026 greeting to marque the runway functional aft an betterment successful the weather. Photo: X/@SrinagarAirport

Flight operations resumed astatine the airdrome connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) aft remaining suspended for a time due to dense snowfall, officials said.

The Airports Authority of India, successful adjacent coordination with BRO, successfully cleared the apron and taxiways connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) greeting to marque the runway functional aft an betterment successful the weather.

A large snowfall successful Kashmir connected Friday (January 23, 2026) forced the cancellation of formation operations astatine the airdrome arsenic snowfall accumulated connected the runway.

"The formation operations person resumed astatine the airdrome arsenic a formation has conscionable landed astatine the aerodrome," officials astatine the Srinagar Airport present said.

"A associated inspection was carried retired and formation operations were resumed," they said, adding that formation operations are expected to tally usually and smoothly now.

However, an Indigo formation was cancelled aboriginal greeting owed to unfavourable upwind conditions here, portion fewer others were cancelled owed to NOTAM (Notice to Airmen giving pilots indispensable accusation connected formation safety) astatine Delhi, the officials said.

There was immoderate hold successful the cognition of fewer different flights, they added.

Published - January 24, 2026 12:22 p.m. IST

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