Five flights diverted toVaranasi due to storm in Delhi | Varanasi News
How did your country report this? Share your view in the comments.
Diverging Reports Breakdown
Five flights diverted toVaranasi due to storm in Delhi
At least five flights, including one international, were diverted to Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi due to inclement weather in Delhi late Saturday. All these landings took place after 2 am, and their departure was allowed after over a one-hour stay. Delhi witnessed a powerful spell of heavy rain and thunderstorms on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
Tired of too many ads? go ad free now
Airport director Puneet Gupta said on Sunday, “Four Delhi-bound IndiGo flights and one of Air India were diverted to Varanasi due to bad weather in the national capital.” Initially, AIC2703 A20N Kolkata-Delhi was allowed to land, after which four more flights, including IGO2007 A21N Mumbai-Delhi, IGO16M A20N Dubai-Delhi, and IGO6072 A21N Calicut-Delhi, landed here. All these landings took place after 2 am, and their departure was allowed after over a one-hour stay.
The airport and airline officials and staff remained busy making necessary arrangements for the comfortable stay of passengers.
Delhi witnessed a powerful spell of heavy rain and thunderstorms on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, which brought air traffic to a temporary halt at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. It resulted in the diversion of around 49 flights, including 17 international, from Delhi. tnn
Delhi, Noida, Faridabad, Gurugram hit by heavy rain, hailstorm; 38 flights diverted, departures delayed – PICS
Heavy rains and hailstorm accompanied by strong winds lashed Delhi and adjoining areas, bringing the mercury down by four to five notches. People took to the social media to share photographs of roads covered with hail. Due to the bad weather, operations at the Delhi airport witnessed massive disruption as total 38 flights were diverted to nearby cities between 6 pm and 8.45 pm. A chartered plane carrying Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was also diverted.
New Delhi: Heavy rains and hailstorm accompanied by strong winds on Thursday lashed Delhi and the adjoining areas, bringing the mercury down by four to five notches. People took to the social media to share photographs of roads covered with hail.
Due to the bad weather, operations at the Delhi airport witnessed massive disruption as total 38 flights were diverted to nearby cities between 6 pm and 8.45 pm.
Several other flights were facing departure delays of over two hours. “Looks almost like snow in Delhi! Massive disruption to flights with multiple diversions across airlines. Customers are requested to be patient, really not in staff or airline control,” tweeted Vistara airlines’ chief strategy and commercial officer, Sanjiv Kapoor.
Meanwhile, a Delhi airport official said that nine international flights and 23 domestic flights were diverted to nearby cities. Remaining six flights that were diverted were either private jets or belonged to the Indian Air Force.
Notably, a chartered plane carrying Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was also diverted. Khattar was flying from Delhi to Jodhpur; however, his plane was diverted to Jaipur.
“In between 6 pm and 7 pm, nine flights were diverted to Jaipur airport. In the same time period, three flights each were diverted to Lucknow airport and Amritsar airport. Two flights were diverted to Varanasi and one flight to Indore in this one-hour period,” said the Delhi airport official.
“Due to extremely bad weather, many of the flights are facing a departure delay of more than two hours,” he added.
As per another airport official, four out of the nine flights diverted to Jaipur belonged to Air India. “These four flights of Air India were heading to Delhi from Varanasi, Kathmandu, Dubai and Kabul,” he said.
Due to the rain, the minimum temperature in the national capital settled at 15 degrees Celsius, six notches above the season’s average and the maximum temperature was recorded at 19.1 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average.