Mumbai: Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport continued to report flight delays and diversions on Thursday, owing to prevailing weather conditions and the main runway being unavailable for the third day in a row.
Operations at the main runway of the city airport have been shut since Monday night after a SpiceJet aircraft skidded and a part of the runway was blocked.
A Mumbai International Airport Ltd spokesperson said efforts were on to retrieve the disabled aircraft at the earliest. A team of Air India Engineering Services Ltd is undertaking the aircraft retrieval using a Damaged Aircraft Recovery Kit.
Flights are currently being operated at the secondary runway, which has lesser capacity, leading to delays in both arrivals and departures.
Air India flight AI 678 from Delhi and British Airways flight 199 from London Heathrow were diverted to Ahmedabad owing to low visibility at the Mumbai airport.
At 1.30 p.m., Swedish airport and airline tracking website Flightradar24 showed an average 30-minute delay in arrivals, with 79 flights delayed and 14 cancelled.
On the departure side, the website showed a 58-minute delay in take-offs, with 182 flights being delayed and 19 cancelled.
04/07/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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Operations at the main runway of the city airport have been shut since Monday night after a SpiceJet aircraft skidded and a part of the runway was blocked.
A Mumbai International Airport Ltd spokesperson said efforts were on to retrieve the disabled aircraft at the earliest. A team of Air India Engineering Services Ltd is undertaking the aircraft retrieval using a Damaged Aircraft Recovery Kit.
Flights are currently being operated at the secondary runway, which has lesser capacity, leading to delays in both arrivals and departures.
Air India flight AI 678 from Delhi and British Airways flight 199 from London Heathrow were diverted to Ahmedabad owing to low visibility at the Mumbai airport.
At 1.30 p.m., Swedish airport and airline tracking website Flightradar24 showed an average 30-minute delay in arrivals, with 79 flights delayed and 14 cancelled.
On the departure side, the website showed a 58-minute delay in take-offs, with 182 flights being delayed and 19 cancelled.
04/07/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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