New Delhi, January 31: After a gap of three weeks, dense fog returned at the IGI airport today bringing air operations to virtual standstill and disrupting schedules of nearly 200 domestic and international flights, causing inconvenience to the passengers.
Over 150 flights were delayed by half an hour to three hours, a Jet Airways flight from Abu Dhabi had to be diverted to Mumbai while two domestic flights — of SpiceJet and Kingfisher — from Mumbai had to be diverted to Lucknow and Jaipur respectively after runway visibility dropped to 50 metres early in the morning, an airport official said.
“Airlines had to cancel 13 domestic flights from and to the city. Also. most of the flights scheduled to depart after 5.45 AM were rescheduled,” he added.
–Agencies