As many as 15 flights have been diverted from touchdown at Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) Airport in Delhi Monday owing to low visibility circumstances as temperatures dipped and smog thickened over the Capital. Air India, IndiGo and SpiceJet have been among the many flights affected. Whereas 13 flights have been diverted to Jaipur, one every was diverted to Dehradun and Lucknow.
Sources at Delhi Worldwide Airport Restricted (DIAL) confirmed that the flights needed to be diverted as a consequence of an absence of skilled captains educated in CAT-III operation to land plane in poor visibility circumstances. CAT-III is a extremely exact approach for airplanes to land even in poor visibility, permitting them to descend to only 100 ft above the runway with clear steerage, and the runway must be seen inside 200 metres.
IGI Airport skilled dense fog, with visibility that dropped to 100-150 metres round 11 pm Sunday remaining the identical till 11 am Monday. Safdarjung Airport had a visibility of 150 m throughout the identical timeframe. “Poor visibility in Delhi and a few elements of northern India are affecting flight operations to and from Delhi right now. Company are suggested to start out early for the airport, as gradual site visitors might delay your motion,” Air India mentioned in a publish on X Monday.
SpiceJet, in an analogous publish, mentioned that as a consequence of poor visibility in Delhi, all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights might get affected. “TravelAdvisory: Fog is presently affecting visibility in Delhi, which can end in gradual transferring site visitors and delays in flight schedules,” IndiGo mentioned in a publish on Sunday.
In response to the India Meteorological Division, the Capital noticed a most temperature within the vary of 25-27 levels Celsius, whereas the minimal temperature was between 11-16 levels Celsius. The utmost temperature was 1-2 levels under regular, whereas the minimal temperature was 2-4 levels above regular. Reasonable fog and smog circumstances have been noticed with westward winds ranging between 6 to 12 kmph.
For the following three days, the IMD has predicted principally clear skies. Dense fog and light-weight winds from the northwest, under 5-8 kmph, are anticipated within the mornings. Nevertheless, winds are anticipated to select up a tad, to under 10-12 kmph within the afternoon, and die right down to under 8 kmph at evening, with shallow fog or smog circumstances within the night.
The Met division has suggested folks to drive rigorously and to make use of fog lights. It additionally issued an advisory to keep away from outings except completely mandatory.
