Jammu, Dec 14 To give a big push to the tourism sector in particular besides further improving the connectivity with other parts of the country, Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to extend the timing of evening flights at Jammu and Srinagar airports from 1 January 2019.
“The Air Force authorities have been asked to extend watch hours from 0800 hrs to 2100 hrs at Jammu Airport and 0800 hrs to 2000 hrs at Srinagar airport to facilitate operation of flights during late hours,” Principal Secretary Civil Aviation Rohit Kansal here said on Friday at a high-level meeting.
Mr Kansal asked the Srinagar and Jammu airport directors to direct the airlines to start early morning and late evening flights on Srinagar and Jammu sectors.
To ease the connectivity to different regions of the state affected by the weather vagaries, Principal Secretary Civil Aviation reviewed helicopter services of all approved 10 routes besides directing restoration of services for Ladakh within a week.
While reviewing the helicopter service, the meeting called for giving wide publicity to the helicopter route schedules besides publicising the contact numbers of nodal officers of all helipads in print and electronic media.
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