Delhi Airport braces for foggy days

New Delhi: With the Met department predicting 120 hours of dense fog till mid-February, Delhi Airport is bracing itself for winter woes by providing additional bays to function in low visibility, flight updates on social networking sites and better facilities for passengers in case of disruptions.
“It is primarily dense fog that can affect the airline operations and as per our predictions there will be around 120 hours of dense fog this year,” Mr R.K. Jenamani, Director of the Meteorological office at the IGI Airport, told reporters today.
DIAL officials said that they had made extensive preparations to deal with the fog.
Apart from sharing fog-related details and status of flights on their Web sites, they would post information of social networking sites such as Google and Twitter.
20/12/11 PTI/Business Line

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Categories: airports Dec 2011