While the past week saw Spicejet passengers creating a ruckus over mass cancellations, the weekend at the airport was no less noisy with flight schedules on sectors such as Mumbai to Chandigarh, Indore and Jaipur changed, if not cancelled altogether, due to a thick blanket of fog over parts of north India.
Between Friday and Saturday seven schedules were affected, leading to chaos at Mumbai, which itself was not affected by the fog. According to Indian Meteorological (Met) Department officials, there may be temporary respite after the weekend, but dense fog will return before Christmas. "Now that the fog system has been put in place, there have been no diversions, though delays will occur as aircraft movement slows down during low visibility. The real test on how well airlines are prepared will be after Christmas," an Air India official said.
On Sunday, Jet Airways announced cancellation of flights from Mumbai to Chandigarh and vice versa upto Tuesday. For Sunday, the airline rescheduled flights from Mumbai to Indore and back, Bhavnagar, Bhopal and Delhi-Mumbai-Bhuj. Flights were rescheduled by 10 minutes to over 2 hours.
22/12/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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Between Friday and Saturday seven schedules were affected, leading to chaos at Mumbai, which itself was not affected by the fog. According to Indian Meteorological (Met) Department officials, there may be temporary respite after the weekend, but dense fog will return before Christmas. "Now that the fog system has been put in place, there have been no diversions, though delays will occur as aircraft movement slows down during low visibility. The real test on how well airlines are prepared will be after Christmas," an Air India official said.
On Sunday, Jet Airways announced cancellation of flights from Mumbai to Chandigarh and vice versa upto Tuesday. For Sunday, the airline rescheduled flights from Mumbai to Indore and back, Bhavnagar, Bhopal and Delhi-Mumbai-Bhuj. Flights were rescheduled by 10 minutes to over 2 hours.
22/12/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
