Ahmedabad: It was an unusul day at the new international terminal, when Air Bus 320, Air Bus 330, Boeing 747, Boeing 777 and several other huge, colourful aircraft touched down at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on Sunday morning.
Air traffic control officials (ATC) said 10 international, including Austrian Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Air China and Lufthansa and two domestic flights were diverted to Ahmedabad from Delhi due to heavy storm there.
For Ahmedabad airport officials the scene was something that they have long desired to watch at the new Rs 350-crore terminal which currently has just a handful of international flights. On Sunday, these flights from foreign destinations landed at Ahmedabad between 12 am to 6 pm and had to wait for hours before they could take off for Delhi again.
However, passengers inside two Cathay Pacific aircrafts which were diverted to Ahmedabad early Sunday morning were waiting for the flight to take till late on Sunday evening. The diversion and bad weather in Delhi also delayed arrival and departure of several flights from the city airport.
23/05/11 Ankur Jain/Times of India
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