Srinagar airport sees report site visitors on Tuesday

Express News Service

SRINAGAR: With Kashmir witnessing a bumper vacationer season, site visitors at Srinagar airport has been hovering, too. A report 90 flights operated on the airport with 15,014 passengers on Monday. These included 45 arrivals and departures every, stated Kuldeep Singh Rishi, Director, Srinagar airport. “It was the busiest day in our history,” he stated.

The earlier report of dealing with 13,700 passengers in a day was made earlier this 12 months. The vacationer circulation to Kashmir has elevated after the opening of Asia’s largest tulip backyard in Srinagar on March 23. According to Singh, the airport is at current dealing with 2,400-2,600 passengers per hour, far past its capability of dealing with 950 passengers per hour. The congestion on the airport is even inflicting some inconvenience to the travellers.

“The arrangements and facilities at Srinagar airport have been set up to handle 25 lakh passengers per year. But we are handling more than double the capacity,” Singh stated, and added that the infrastructure can be improved to managed the growing load. “We have plans to construct a new terminal building at a cost of Rs 1,500 crore,” he stated.

The airport has appointed Landrum Brown to hold out a examine of passenger circulation to determine the issue areas and recommend remedial measures.