Imphal-Delhi flight lands in Jaipur
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 28 2023:
A dense layer of fog engulfed the national capital as cold wave gripped the city, leading to delays in train and flight services in Delhi, causing inconvenience to passengers in the last couple of days.
Visuals from the Indira Gandhi International Airport showed passengers queuing up at the gates of the airport amid intense fog.
The Delhi airport reported delays in flight operations affecting approximately 134 flights, both arrivals and departures (domestic and international), due to fog, on Thursday.
While departures of 35 international flights got delayed from Delhi, 28 international arrivals also landed hours after schedule.
On the other hand, 43 domestic departures and 28 domestic arrivals got delayed.
Earlier, on Wednesday, an Air India flight that left Imphal Airport at 4.10 pm remained stranded in Guwahati airport for some time before resuming the journey.
However, the flight landed in Jaipur around 9 pm.
As the passengers had to take buses to reach Delhi from Jaipur, they expressed dismay that Air India did not arrange transport service following the rerouting.
For the last couple of days, dense fog has been engulfing the national capital and the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the city has dipped to "severe", as per data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) .
The Met department, on its part, has issued an orange alert in the city after the visibility dipped to around 50 metre.
The low visibility has affected flight and railway operations with over a 100 flights to Delhi from across the country gettihg cancelled on Wednesday.