Fog effect: Early morning flights to North India rescheduled

Mumbai: For the next one month, taking early morning flights to destinations such as Chandigarh and Jammu is going to be difficult with airlines rescheduling them to later in the day because of fog in North India.
Jet Airways has rescheduled its flight to Chandigarh from Mumbai to depart at 11.30 am because of prevailing poor visibility conditions at the Chandigarh airport. Similarly, Jet has rescheduled its flights to Udaipur from its early morning 5.40 am slot to 7.05 am.
On the other hand, it has cancelled its flight from Delhi to Chandigarh altogether for the first week of January citing poor visibility conditions at the Chandigarh airport. These flights have been rescheduled regularly over the last few days and this is likely to continue in January as well. ATC officials said flights from many fog hit stations including Chandigarh and Delhi continue to be delayed by an average of an hour.
On Friday, Go Air’s flight to Chandigarh was delayed by around 3 hours because of the weather. According to flight tracking website flightstats.com, Jet Airways cancelled its 7 am flight from Mumbai to Delhi on Friday. Early morning flights to destinations such as Bangalore are also going to be uncertain because of fog affecting other stations as well.
01/01/11 Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011