Flights delayed due to heavy rain

Nagpur: Torrential downpour in Mumbai led to diversions, delays and rescheduling of flights to and from Mumbai over the weekend.
All the three evening flights from Mumbai—Indian, Jet and Kingfisher Airlines arrived one to two hours late and left only around Saturday midnight. " Passengers who came from Mumbai told us that they boarded the flight but it didn't take off for about a hour. In Nagpur again the planes were held up because of heavy rain and air traffic congestion in Mumbai," an airline official said.
Indian diverted two Mumbai-bound flights to city on Saturday night. A Delhi-Mumbai flight and Muscat-Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight were diverted to Nagpur and they took off to Mumbai after refuelling well past midnight.
The Sunday morning flights from Mumbai too were delayed. While Kingfisher Airlines arrived 20 minutes late, Indian and Jet Airways flights were delayed by a hour. Indian and Jet Airways departed at about 11 am.
25/06/07 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jun 2007, General Aviation Jun 2007