Bad weather affects flight services at Delhi airport
Vistara flight from Guwahati to Delhi (GAU-DEL) was diverted to Jaipur (JAI) due to bad weather and air traffic congestion at Delhi airport on Monday, reported ANI.
As per airport sources, some Delhi-bound flights have been diverted due to bad weather in Delhi-NCR.
IndiGo also released a «travel advisory» and stated that heavy rainfall had impacted flight operations in Delhi.
"#6ETravelAdvisory: Flight operations to/from Delhi are impacted due to heavy rain," IndiGo posted on social media platform X.
Spicejet also took to X and posted a similar advisory saying, «We are facing ATC congestion at Delhi (DEL) due to bad weather. All departures/arrivals and their consequential flights might get affected.»
Earlier today, a Vistara flight from Kolkata to Delhi was directed to Lucknow due to Air Traffic congestion at Delhi airport.
Flight number UK778 has been directed to Lucknow and is expected to arrive in Lucknow at 1845 hours.
«UK778 from Kolkata to Delhi (CCU-DEL) has been diverted to Lucknow (LKO) due to Air Traffic congestion at Delhi airport and is expected to arrive in Lucknow at 1845 hours.
Please stay tuned for further updates,» said Vistara in an official statement.
Several areas of Delhi-NCR experienced light rainfall on Monday evening.
«Hailstorm/precipitation would occur in West Delhi, South-West Delhi, South Delhi and South-East Delhi.
Severe thunderstorm with light intensity rain would occur over many places in Delhi-NCR during the next two hours,» IMD said in a tweet.
(With agency inputs)
