New Delhi, December 26: Over 100 flights were delayed, diverted or cancelled due to dense fog at Delhi’s IGI airport which witnessed its first major disruption this winter.
Stranded passengers had to spend long hours at the airport as the domestic and international flights were delayed for upto five hours.
The fog started to envelop the airport around 7 PM last evening reducing visibility to zero and lasted for over 17 hours forcing the airport authorities to implement low visibility procedure.
38 domestic and international flights were cancelled while around 30 flights were delayed. 42 flights, including 14 international, had to be diverted Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Lucknow as the runway visibility dropped to less than 100 metres.
According to airport authorities, 326 flights operated using various categories of instrument landing system (ILS).
–Agencies