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Flight cancelled today: Thick fog and poor visibility wreaked havoc at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Sunday, causing 97 flight
cancellations and over 200 delayed departures and arrivals. The country's busiest airport faced significant disruptions, with 48 arrivals and 49 departures cancelled. Additionally, more than 10 flights were cancelled in Srinagar due to the same weather conditions.
Delhi flights cancelled today
According to PTI, flight tracking website Flightradar24.com, more than 200 flights were delayed, and the average delay time was around 23 minutes for departures at the airport.
In a post on X at noon, Delhi airport operator DIAL said operations are running smoothly.
DIAL operates the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), the country's largest airport, which generally handles around 1,300 flights daily. Flight operations have been disrupted for the past many days at Delhi and other airports due to dense fog.
More than 10 flights cancelled at Srinagar Airport
At least 11 flights were cancelled on Sunday at Srinagar International Airport, following snowfall in the upper reaches and rainfall in the plains of the valley, officials said.
An official of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) told PTI, "We had 11 flights cancelled today at Srinagar airport due to bad weather," the official told PTI.
Additionally, two flights bound for Srinagar were cancelled due to weather conditions at Jammu and Delhi airports. The cancellations were attributed to snowfall in the higher reaches of Kashmir and moderate rainfall in the plains.
The AAI official added that four flights were waiting for departure at the apron of Srinagar airport, while two flights were scheduled to arrive later in the day.
The official further noted that the resumption of flight operations would depend on an improvement in weather conditions.
UP: Air India Express, SpiceJet flights cancelled at Ayodhya Airport due to dense fog
Two scheduled commercial flights were cancelled at Maharishi Valmiki International Airport on Sunday, according to officials at Ayodhya Airport Authority of India (AAI).
The cancelled services include Air India Express flight IX1284/IX1274, operating on the Delhi-Ayodhya-Delhi sector, and SpiceJet flight SG615/SG614, scheduled on the Mumbai-Ayodhya-Ahmedabad route. The cancellations come amid persistent dense fog in the region, which has significantly reduced visibility and triggered low-visibility operational procedures at the airport. Similar advisories have been issued in the past few days as fog continues to affect northern India.
Meanwhile, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) issued an advisory on Sunday, warning that fog conditions in parts of northern India are affecting visibility and may lead to delays or changes in flight operations at select airports.
With agency inputs
