New Delhi: All 32 airports in North, West and Central India were closed from May 7, which opened again at 10.30 am on Monday after the India-Pakistan ceasefire. Accordingly, the airlines began to start operations at these 32 places from Monday and expected to restore all suspended 350–400 daily flights in the next few days.It will take a few days to clean the backlogs of trapped passengers and Airlines including IndiGo have said that they will do extra flights to do so.32 airports temporarily closed for civil flight operations by 5.29 am on 15 May and now reopened after the ceasefire: Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Bikaner, Hindon, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Kandla, Kulilu, Bhartar, Raja, Bhantar, Bhantar, Bhatar.IndiGo 6E 2247 Delhi-Jammu became one of the flights launched on Monday at 6.34 pm on the IGIA. Jammu Airport said on X, “The flight operation was conducted smoothly at the Jammu Airport (Monday)! IndiGo 6E 2247 landed from Delhi and returned for Return Flight 6E 5642 Delhi.” “During the next few days, more flights will start again in the network,” the airline said in a statement.Air India said it “will resume flights starting on Tuesday (May 13) from Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Chandigarh and Rajkot. Booking for these areas is now open.”Air India Express said it would resume operations at already closed airports with Hindon-Bengaluru on Tuesday (May 13); Jammu -Delhi; Jammu -Sarinagar and Srinagar -Dali. Hindon-Mumbai has been scheduled to resume from Wednesday and “Restoration of other flights including international services from Amritsar is expected to follow from May 15,” Airline said, adding that it says that “will gradually restore flight operations from closed airports, after notice of notice by authorities.,Air India said that it is working towards flying from Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Chandigarh and Rajkot. ” Other airlines also said that they would resume flights to cities on their network.Chandigarh Airport said on X, “Flight services from Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh have resumed on May 12, 2025 till 10:30 am.Airlines canceled hundreds of flights from 7 May. IndiGo has said that it will operate additional flights to clean up trapped passengers.India had discontinued airports and some segments of the air traffic service routes (nominated highways of the sky) within the Delhi and Mumbai Flight Information Areas (FIRs) to ensure that the civilian traffic was out of loss, as Pakistan was targeting cities and citizens here. On the other hand, Pakistan did not do so and really resorted to a cowardly strategy to use civil aircraft in its airspace.
