Low visibility hits air traffic in Valley for fifth day Archives

The air traffic to and from the Kashmir valley remained disrupted for the fifth consecutive day today as low visibility forced the cancellation of 40 flights scheduled to arrive and depart from the region’s only airport here. The visibility at the airport today was around 600 m, which was 700 m less than the 1.3 km visibility required for safe landings of passenger planes, said Sharad Kumar, Director of the Srinagar International Airport. He said the visibility on Monday was “worse” than the previous days. The airport official said 20…