Kashmiri woman pilgrim aboard Jeddah-Delhi flight dies of cardiac arrest

An IndiGo flight from Jeddah to Delhi on Tuesday made an emergency landing here in Rajasthan after a 60yearold woman passenger fell ill and was later declared brought dead by a local hospitalHer son said she was rushed to the hospital on landing but it declared her brought deadThe aircraft made the emergency landing around 1030 am and a medical team took her to the hospital officials saidAlso readOn the run husband accused of abetting wifersquos suicide arrested in GuwahatiThe womans son Meer Muzaffar said he and his 60yearold mother Misra were in Saudi Arabia on religious visitHe said they had boarded the flight for Delhi and later were to change for a connecting flight to Kashmir My mother complained of pain in her chest I immediately informed the crew and it decided to go for an emergency landing in Jodhpur he saidA source in the hospital said The woman had a cardiac arrest and was declared brought dead We conducted legal formalities and arranged a transport for her son so that he could take her body home by roadThe flight was at the airport for over an hour and then left for Delhi the officials saidMeanwhile passenger traffic at Bangalore International Airport surged 71 per cent to 275 million in CY2022 aided by massive recovery in the domestic passenger volume which reached 85 per cent of the 2019 prepandemic level and stood at 2436million during the yearThe rapid recovery in traffic was driven by a host of factors including relaunching of key routes and introduction of new routes connecting leading business hubs and travel destinations among others Bangalore International Airport Ltd BIAL said on TuesdayThe international traffic recovered 65 per cent of the preCovid level at 314million in 2022 as compared to around 940000 in 2021The private airport operator had flown a total of 1239 million passengers as of December 31 2021There was a sharp increase in passenger numbers during the yearend holiday season with as many as 313 million passengers travelling in December 2022 of which 274 million were domestic passengers surpassing the preCovid record of 306 million passengers in December 2019 BIAL saidBesides there was a 98 per cent recovery in air transport movements ATMs compared to preCovid numbers while the domestic ATMs saw a 100 per cent recovery in the year gone by the private airport operator saidOverall the domestic air traffic has contributed significantly to the speedy recovery it statedBIAL noted that after the two challenging years of the pandemic most airlines resumed their operations fully connecting to an increased number of destinations in 2022 and added that the facility now connects to 75 destinations across India and an increase of 16 destinations compared to preCovidPostresumption of scheduled international operations in March 2022 Qantas Airways launched direct route between Bengaluru and Sydney with four weekly flights by making it the first direct connectivity to Australia from South India BIAL saidThis was followed by Emirates launching A380 service to Dubai citing increased demand from the Bangalore Airport and South India Further Air Indias reinstatement of its thriceweekly Bengaluru San Francisco route in December last year made the airport the first airport in South and Central India to get direct connectivity to North AmericaTransit passengers helped in recovery of the passenger volume it said and added that with over 100 daily departures the share of transfer passengers increased to 15 per cent 5 per cent compared to preCovid yearsThe airport operator said that Delhi Mumbai Kolkata Kochi and Hyderabad were the top domestic routes in CY 2022 contributing approximately 40 per cent to domestic traffic while Dubai Male Singapore Doha and Abu Dhabi were the top international routes contributing approximately 47 per cent to international trafficThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever