Rain relief disrupts flights at Chd airport

  • | Tuesday | 7th August, 2018

Another IndiGo flight from Hyderabad also had delayed arrival by 40 minutes and departed late by 33 minutes. IndiGo Dubai flight arrived 1.10 hours late at 11.35 am against its scheduled arrival of 10:25 am. Similarly, Air India flight from Sharjah arrived 56 minutes late and departed 48 minutes late from the airport.Air Asia flight from Bengaluru arrived and departed late by over 3 hours. The flight departed late by 21 minutes. I had to catch a connecting flight to Goa from Delhi, which I missed.”The two international flights also arrived and departed late.

MOHALI: Two flights were cancelled and 26 others delayed at the Chandigarh international airport owing to low clouds formation on a day the city received one of its strongest monsoon showers on Monday.As it rained intermittently almost throughout the day, visibility dropped to 1,500 metres, which is much below the minimum permissible visibility of 2,600 metres, according to an airport spokesperson. One flight was diverted back to Delhi, he said.Flights from Dubai and Sharjah were also delayed along with those from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Indore and Pune. One IndiGo flight from Delhi was diverted back, whereas an IndiGo flight from Dubai was also diverted to Delhi as they failed to land due to very poor visibility.The 6E 842 IndiGo flight from Delhi did not arrive because of which its departure was cancelled. Similarly, Air Vistara flight UK 880/879 also did not arrive from Delhi and Air India flight from Kullu was also cancelled.Passengers were at the receiving end as many flight operators failed to pass on the information regarding the delay or cancellation of flights.Gagandeep Singh, a city resident, said he had to wait for over three hours before the flight operator updated that the Delhi-bound flight has been delayed. He said, “We were unaware about why our departure has been delayed. We were not allowed to proceed and the airlines did not inform us. I had to catch a connecting flight to Goa from Delhi, which I missed.”The two international flights also arrived and departed late. IndiGo Dubai flight arrived 1.10 hours late at 11.35 am against its scheduled arrival of 10:25 am. The flight departed late by 21 minutes. Similarly, Air India flight from Sharjah arrived 56 minutes late and departed 48 minutes late from the airport.Air Asia flight from Bengaluru arrived and departed late by over 3 hours. With scheduled arrival of 12.25 pm, the flight arrived at 3.52 pm and with scheduled departure of 12.50 pm, it departed for Bengaluru at 3.58 pm.The Jet Airways flight 9W 430 departed late by 4.20 hours for Mumbai, whereas the flight arrived late by just 27 minutes.The IndiGo flight from Kolkata arrived 1.40 hours late and was further delayed by over 3 hours during the departure. Another IndiGo flight from Hyderabad also had delayed arrival by 40 minutes and departed late by 33 minutes. Recently introduced Indore flight was also delayed by 23 minutes.

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