Dense fog cover at IGI, 150 flights delayed

New Delhi: Nearly 150 flights were delayed, while a few were cancelled or diverted as well due to dense fog at the IGI airport on Friday resulting in inconvenience to passengers. Sources confirmed that at least 144 flights were delayed, while at least 10 flights were cancelled.
Four flight diversions were also reported.
Sources at the IGI airport said that the fog was very dense in the early hours of Friday, peaking at about 4.30 am when the Runway Visual Range (RVR) dipped to just about 75 metres. This necessitated flight operations under the CAT-III B instrumentation landing system for RVR between 50 to 200 metres. Visibility is expected to once again reduce in the early hours of Saturday as well.
Airlines delayed, cancelled and diverted flights citing the weather at Delhi, the weather at other airports from where flights were to originate and also due to other operational reasons.
IGI sources said that out of at least 144 flight delays, 65 were cited by the airlines due to the weather at Delhi while a whopping 79 flight delays were cited due to other operational reasons.
24/12/11 Asian Age

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Categories: airports Dec 2011