After 3 days, Delhi airport gets back to some sense of normalcy

New Delhi: After three days of disruptions owing to dense fog, flight operations at the Indira Gandhi international airport here remained largely normal today.
Most flights were operated as per schedule though visibility was low. But owing to the cascading effect of the past three days, about 60 flights were delayed while eight were cancelled.
Two international flights, an Air France flight to Paris and a Continental Airlines flight to Newark, and six domestic flights to Chandigarh, Amritsar, Kolkata, Jaipur and Bangalore were cancelled for operational reasons, an airport official said.
Though there was fog at the airport and on the runways and visibility was low since late last night, flight operations remained unaffected, the official said, adding that there was no diversion of flights unlike in the past three days. Delhi airport has been witnessing dense fog since Christmas. Last night, dense fog enveloped the new runway of the airport, while there was shallow haze on the main and second runways.
28/12/10 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010