Tuesday, December 16, 2014

50 flights late, nine diverted due to fog

New Delhi: It was a day of disappointments for flyers at IGI. Over 50 flights were delayed due to fog and nine flights diverted, including an international flight from Frankfurt. Four flights of Jet Airways, meant to take off to domestic locations, were also cancelled although airline officials could not confirm the reason for the cancellations.

While Met officials ascribed the cause of diversion to the first spell of fog this season, the airport operator said they were for "airline operational reasons only". "Either the aircraft attempting to land at IGI early morning were not CAT-IIIB compliant or pilots of these flights were not trained in CAT-IIIB," said an official for DIAL, the airport operator.

R K Jenamani, director-in-charge of IGI Met, said the densest spell of fog arrived at the capital between 7.30 and 10am.
16/12/14 Times of India
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