Civil Aviation Ministry keen on airports undertaking measures to tackle fog in winter

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Civil Aviation Ministry is focused on airports undertaking adequate «fog planning» for better servicing of airlines in the northern states, a senior government official said on Thursday. Civil Aviation Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam, said the immediate focus is to ensure that the increasing air traffic in the winter season is well serviced in the airports by the airlines.
«Winter is coming.

We need to see that the increasing air traffic in the winter season is well serviced in our airports by our airlines. The fog planning is part of the winter in the northern region airports, so we (are) focused on these things,» he told PTI.
On plans to reduce passenger traffic congestion at the airports during the winter, he said, «It is really about planning the various security counters..., the immigration counters are enough to meet the load, the adequate manpower are posted by the various agencies performing those sovereign functions.

So, we monitor it on a weekly basis. We are hopeful that this time it will be much smoother.»
Meanwhile, another senior official said the government is planning various measures at airports, including having adequate manpower, to handle high passenger traffic during the peak travel period.
Last year, airports witnessed significant congestion during the peak travel period amid rising domestic air passenger traffic.