ICC World Cup 2023 Final: Narendra Modi stadium turns into 'sea of blue', Ahmedabad sets air traffic records
ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 Final between India and Australia at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium on 19 November is underway, and the stadium is filled with a sea of blue, as spectators and cricket fans across India arrive expecting the Men in Blue will defeat the Australians and lift the Cricket World Cup. The buzz for the the match was complemented by world-renowned Surya Kiran, the aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force.
The Surya Kiran team, comprising nine aircraft, owned the sky with a 10-minute air show ahead of the game. As thousands of spectators moved towards the 1.32 lakh capacity stadium, dressed in the blue jerseys of the Indian cricket team, others were seen making last-minute purchases from vendors.
Be it jerseys, the Tricolour, traditional Indian headgear like 'pagdis' in saffron, things like masks of master batter 'King' Virat Kohli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were selling like hotcakes. ALSO READ: India vs Australia Live Score Updates, World Cup Final With reports of record high prices of the tickets for the match, another report arrived that flight ticket prices for Ahmedabad from various metro cities in the country reached as high as ₹40,000.
Combined with airlines like IndiGo and Vistara, even the Indian Railways responded by adding additional trains to Ahmedabad from Mumbai. With the end of the Diwali holidays, Chatth Puja, and adding on, the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 Final between India and Australia, the the domestic air traffic in India saw 4,56,748 passengers, breaching its previous best of 456,082, which was recorded on the last day of April, reported Hindustan Times.
All it took was nine more flights than what operated on April 30. The report added, that the total traffic
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