Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi remained affected due to dense fog on Wednesday, disrupting the schedules of over 50 domestic and international flights. "Fog started enveloping the airport from 10 pm on Tuesday night and runway visibility dropped to 50 metres, due to which 21 domestic and international flights were diverted, while 15 others were cancelled," an airport official said.
After three days of dense fog, operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi remained largely normal on Wednesday. Though there was shallow fog in the morning, visibility remained above 1500 metres and flight operations remained normal with departures and arrivals as per schedule, airport sources said.
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Jet Airways has also been asked to provide details of the pilots who are "habitual" of reporting sick and disrupting the airline's schedule, an official said.
No flights have taken-off or landed after 8 am as the runway visibility dropped to 50 metres on both the runways due to dense fog that enveloped the airport early on Tuesday morning, airport sources said. About 12 incoming and outgoing morning flights were cancelled.
The civil aviation ministry on Wednesday said the use of masks is not compulsory during air travel but passengers should preferably use them amid the declining number of coronavirus cases.
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A Kathmandu-bound Jet Airways flight with 111 people on board was on Monday halted minutes before take-off from the IGI Airport in New Delhi after a bomb threat.
The sources said that during the boarding, the male passenger behaved in an unruly manner and touched the female cabin crew member inappropriately.
Navi Mumbai airport's construction is facing delays, and is likely to commence commercial operations in 2025 instead of 2024, aviation consultancy firm CAPA has said in a report. When asked about this matter, the Adani Group told Business Standard that the Navi Mumbai airport project is "being executed as per scheduled implementation plan and will be operational by the original target date of December, 2024, without any delay". Navi Mumbai International Airport Limited (NMIAL), responsible for both the construction and operation of the airport, is a subsidiary of the Adani Group.
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Air operations remained disrupted for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport due to dense fog, with schedules of over 50 domestic and international flights badly affected.Three morning flights were cancelled, while 32 domestic and 20 international ones were delayed by over three to four hours as thick fog blanketed the airport. Fog began to descend upon the airport late on Friday night.
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"It was a good flight," B R Pai, Director, National Aerospace Laboratories, which has designed and developed the aircraft, told PTI.
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The letter came on a day when at least 16 Kingfisher flights, 10 from Mumbai and six from Delhi, were cancelled due to the strike.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, who is in the midst of a row over offloading of passenger and delaying a flight from Leh to Delhi, on Thursday tendered an apology even as he insisted that he was not aware of some others not being allowed to board.
Mizoram's director general of police Anil Shukla held a high-level meeting on Sunday to assess the security arrangements, a statement said.
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A dozen flights were delayed by around 30 to 40 minutes here this morning as refuelling was affected by a strike called by the officers of the public sector oil companies that entered the second day on Thursday.
Flight operations at the New Delhi airport come to standstill as a dense fog enveloped the area this morning.
Reddy directed the officials to treat the storm as a major challenge to avoid loss of life and property as the winds are expected to blow gales reaching speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour.
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Jet Airways is planning to introduce six flights a week from Mumbai to Newark in the United States from mid-June and aims to step up its daily flights to 21 services a week from India to Singapore in its winter schedule.
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Two pilot unions at Air India have claimed that there is a shortage of pilots to operate the airline's long-haul and ultra-long haul flights. The concerns raised by the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) also come against the backdrop of the Tatas-owned airline recently cancelling and rescheduling certain flights to and from the North American region due to crew shortage. In a joint letter written to Air India's chief human resources officer Suresh Dutt Tripathi on December 13, the unions said, "...we cannot maintain the printed planned roster due to a shortage of pilots, as CMS (crew management system) does not have standby pilots."
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In March 2020, soon after the cessation of airline operations globally and domestic flights within India, many in the aviation sector had written Delhi-headquartered low-fare airline SpiceJet's obituary well before that of most of its rivals. Unlike IndiGo, GoAir (now rechristened Go First), Vistara and even AirAsia India, SpiceJet did not have founders or backers with deep pockets. Although it is the only other listed carrier in India besides IndiGo, it was considered the weakest and the least likely to survive the pandemic. But chairman and managing director Ajay Singh surprised everyone by not only surviving but taking the lead on many fronts. Within a few weeks of the scheduled flight stoppage, SpiceJet was doing as many charter flights as it could get hold of.
The airline also plans to introduce a third daily direct flight from Mumbai to Bangkok during the winter schedule.
The government on Wednesday directed online travel aggregators to process pending refunds related to air ticket bookings during the coronavirus lockdown period by the third week of November. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, there was a nationwide lockdown for varying periods starting from March 25, 2020, and scheduled commercial flight services were also suspended for a certain period. On Wednesday, the consumer affairs ministry held a meeting with online travel aggregators to discuss issues prejudicial to consumer interest in the travel sector.
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra on Tuesday claimed that the meeting of the ethics committee of the Lok Sabha was postponed to keep a Congress member away from the proceedings and adopt the report by a majority, prompting a sharp retort from Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey.
Night temperature in Delhi went up to 14.4° C, the highest this winter, but morning fog blanketed the capital, reducing visibility to 600 mt, the Weather Office said Wednesday.
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