Chaos in City as fog hits Delhi flights

Ten flights scheduled to leave Bangalore for the Capital were held up and later rescheduled. Kingfisher Airlines said two of its flights from Bangalore were held up for a few minutes.

A thick cover of fog which engulfed the national capital affected flight operations to and from the city, causing hardship to air travellers, as a number of flights were delayed or cancelled for the third day on Monday. About 50 flights were delayed by about 30 minutes to three hours, as the Runway Visibility Range (RVR) dropped in the early hours, while five services were cancelled due to the fog, airport officials said. Three flights, two of Indian and one of Air India, were diverted to Jaipur and Lucknow, causing inconvenience to passengers. Most of the flights coming to Delhi were delayed, while five flights — two of Simply Deccan, two of Jet Airways and a Jetlite flight — were cancelled. “Flights of Jet Airways, JetLite, Indigo and Air Deccan bound for Jammu, Srinagar, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Shimla were affected. One international flight and one domestic flight was diverted towards Jaipur airport,” an airport official said. Ten flights scheduled to leave Bangalore for the Capital were held up and later rescheduled. Kingfisher Airlines said two of its flights from Bangalore were held up for a few minutes. News Source : Samachar