As the season’s worst fog enveloped the northern parts of the country, nearly 600 flights were delayed and 76 cancelled at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport resulting in a cascading effect across most airports in the country.
At Delhi airport, “visibility ranged between zero and 50 metres for 10 hours between 0030 hours and 1130 hours. This was the season’s worst fog. The last such spell was seen in December 2019,” the India Meteorological Department’s senior scientist R.K. Jenamani told The Hindu. He added that there was dense fog across northern India, including at Amritsar, Pathankot, Jammu, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, and Patna.
As a result, between 5 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, 245 inbound flights were delayed and 14 others cancelled, while 355 outbound flights were delayed and 62 were cancelled, according to flight tracking website Flightradar 24.
