Fog in Delhi clogs up

Mumbai: Heavy fog cover over New Delhi since early Monday morning led to 14 flight diversions even as many other flights got delayed by several hours.
Till 5 pm on Tuesday, 14 flights headed for the capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) had been diverted. Six of these were diverted to the Mumbai airport.
Among the Delhi-bound flights from the city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), there was an average flight delay of four hours.
Delhi-bound flights that were diverted to Mumbai include British Airways flight BA143 that landed on Mumbai’s runway at 4:16 am on Tuesday. Other flights include two Jet flights (9W547 & 9W581), a Go Air G8375, a Swiss Air SU533 from Moscow and an Aeroflot flight 533 from Muscat that landed in Mumbai at 3 am.
According to a spokesperson of the Mumbai International Airport Limited, six Delhi-bound flights had to be diverted to Mumbai because of dense fog over Delhi. Because of this, the airport had to operate under low visibility procedures (LVP) for over 13 hours. The Delhi-bound Go Air flight G8375, that was supposed to take off from Mumbai at 2.09 pm, had to be diverted back to the CSIA because of fog over the national capital.
31/12/08 Shashank Shekhar/Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Dec 2008