Most flights were operated as per schedule though visibility was low. Owing to the cascading effect of the past three days, about 60 flights were delayed while eight were cancelled.
After three days of disruptions owing to dense fog, flight operations at the Indira Gandhi international airport here remained largely normal today.
Most flights were operated as per schedule though visibility was low. But owing to the cascading effect of the past three days, about 60 flights were delayed while eight were cancelled.
Two international flights, an Air France flight to Paris and a Continental Airlines flight to Newark, and six domestic flights to Chandigarh, Amritsar, Kolkata, Jaipur and Bangalore were cancelled for operational reasons, an airport official said.
Though there was fog at the airport and on the runways and visibility was low since late last night, flight operations remained unaffected, the official said, adding that there was no diversion of flights unlike in the past three days.
Delhi airport has been witnessing dense fog since Christmas.
Last night, dense fog enveloped the new runway of the airport, while there was shallow haze on the main and second runways.
This led to implementation of low-visibility procedures at the new runway at about 10pm and flights were operated using various categories of the instrument landing system.
The low-visibility procedures were lifted at 7:56am, re-implemented when runway visibility dropped to less than 900m at about 10am, lifted again at 4:55pm, and implemented for the third time at 5:44pm.
About 300 flights were affected by the fog in the past three days.
The meteorological department has predicted that visibility at the airport may remain below 200 metres in dense fog between 9:30pm tonight and 10:30am tomorrow.
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