All 31,450 available seats for the Kedarnath helicopter shuttle service were fully booked within 90 minutes after the portal opened on April 15, 2023. The booking process began at 6 PM and concluded by 7:28 PM, with 10,855 tickets issued through the official Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) portal. This helicopter service connects base camps to the Kedarnath shrine, significantly easing the 16-km trek for pilgrims. The peak booking activity occurred between 6:10 PM and 6:32 PM, with 849 bookings recorded at 6:10 PM alone. Maharashtra led the booking statistics with 1,708 successful transactions, followed by states like Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Telangana, Karnataka, and Gujarat. To ensure fairness, the Uttarakhand Tourism Department limited each user to two bookings and 12 seats, with additional restrictions on IP addresses to prevent abuse. As of now, 913 seats have been canceled across 510 booking IDs.