Over 3,200 stranded passengers flown out of Leh

New Delhi: Over 3,200 tourists, stranded in Leh following a cloudburst, have been evacuated in last three days with Air India and Jet Airways flying out around 850 passengers from the town today.
Jet Airways carried out 479 passengers while Air India brought 371 tourists, stranded in Leh for past four days following the cloudburst that claimed 147 lives.
A total of 3,241 passengers have been evacuated from Leh and brought back to cities like New Delhi, Srinagar and Jammu in past three days as Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher operated 27 special flights.
Air India flew 65 passengers from Srinagar to Leh and 89 from Jammu to Leh.
The airlines were charging one-way fare between Rs 6,200 and Rs 9,000 from the passengers in last three days. Kingfisher were charging Rs 6,200 for a one-way ticket from Leh, whereas Jet was charging between Rs 8,157 and Rs 8,700 and a one-way ticket on Air India flight was of Rs 9,000.
09/08/10 Deccan Herald

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