New Delhi: Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were badly affected on Saturday morning due to dense fog, leading to delay of nearly 20 flights by up to three hours and cancellation of 15 others.
Most of the early morning flights for Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Kochi were cancelled as the general visibility dropped to below 50 metres and the runaway visibility range dipped around 100 m.
This is much below the required minimum of 150 m for the aircraft to take off in a poor visibility condition, airport sources said.
Barring a few international flights, no plane landed or took off since early morning. The fog began enveloping the airport area from 2200 hrs IST on Friday.
Fog has been affecting the flight movements here since Monday and has led to the delay of more than 500 flights and cancellation of around 75 others.
19 domestic flights – including 16 domestic are cancelled. Two flights to Mumbai - a Go-Air and a Jet flight - and another two Jet Airways flights to Chennai and Jaipur have been delayed
. Three southbound Spice Jet flights have also been delayed, so has a Kingfisher flight to Leh.
Not just flights, train schedules have also been thrown off track. About 5 trains have been delayed so far.
- The North east express is running 10 hours late.
- The Mahabodhi Gaya New Delhi train is more than a day late.
- The Swatantrata Senani express has been delayed by 18 hours.
- Riva express is delayed by 7 hours.
- The Lucknow Shatabdi has been delayed by just about 3 hours.
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