A deliberate one-hour closure of the runway at Mumbai as a result of an Indian Air Power aerial show added to challenges with passengers venting their frustration on social media.
Delhi airport is the busiest within the nation with round 1,300 flight actions. Nonetheless, on Sunday not a single plane took off and solely 15 planes landed between 4 am and 10 am. Ten Delhi-bound flights have been diverted to Jaipur.
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Passengers of some of these arriving planes have been caught on the taxiway at Delhi airport for over two hours as all parking bays remained occupied.
“I want to declare non permanent refugee standing. Flights getting delayed or cancelled at Delhi airport. Been right here for five hours,” George Kotakkal, a flyer, mentioned in a X put up.
Manish Ambwani, head of International Operations at Gurgaon-based GreenTree Advisory Providers, spent almost seven hours on the Delhi worldwide airport on Sunday to catch a flight to Dubai because the capital metropolis coped with intense fog. “After I reached the check-in counter, I used to be knowledgeable that my flight was delayed by about three hours. But it surely ended up being delayed by almost 5 hours. With so many flights getting delayed it was utter chaos at Terminal 3. Infact even after boarding, we needed to look ahead to almost one hour contained in the plane as a result of extreme congestion on the runway,” he mentioned.
CAT IIIB instrument
Two of Delhi airport’s runways are outfitted with CAT IIIB instrument touchdown system which permits landings in 75 metres visibility and take offs in 125 metres visibility. Nonetheless, solely one in every of them is in operation at present and the opposite is present process recarpeting. The civil work is full and runway lighting system is being inspected earlier than runway is made out there to be used.
Flight operations at Chennai airport have been impacted between 4.30 am and eight am as a result of low visibility attributable to bonfires on account of Bhogi. The airport noticed diversion of seven flights and cancellations of 47 flights. “We had held discussions with airways, and a few had already rescheduled flights anticipating low visibility,” an airport official mentioned.
Different airports in North India reminiscent of Amritsar, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Varanasi too have been impacted as a result of fog leading to delays and cancellations.
“Our employees stored passengers apprised of all delays and cancellations throughout airports and made each doable effort to facilitate the passengers,” IndiGo mentioned in a press release.
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