NEW DELHI: Two flights from Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneshwar were cancelled, as officials said on Thursday. This came in the wake of ‘Operation Sindoor’ and rising airspace restrictions.The cancelled flights included one to Hindon (Ghaziabad) and another to Chandigarh via Patna, BPIA Director Prasanna Pradhan confirmed.While the Hindon-bound flight was cancelled due to national security-related airspace restrictions in parts of northern and western India, the Chandigarh-Patna flight was grounded for “operational reasons,” Pradhan said. He added that the Patna flight had already been cancelled the previous day, reportedly due to technical issues with the aircraft.Around 27 airports across India are currently facing temporary closures or flight disruptions as a security precaution after the Indian armed forces launched strikes on terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for last month’s Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives.
