New Delhi: After three days of disruptions due to dense fog, flight operations at the IGI airport remained largely normal on Tuesday.
Most of the flights operated as per schedule though the visibility was low. However, due to cascading effect of the past three days, about 60 flights were delayed while eight were cancelled.
Two international flights, Air France flight to Paris and Continental Airlines flight to Newark and six domestic flights to Chandigarh, Amritsar, Kolkata, Jaipur and Bangalore were cancelled due to operational reasons, an airport official said.
Though there was fog at the airport and runway and visibility was low since late last night, flight operations remained unaffected, the official said, adding there were no diversions of flights unlike the last three days.
Delhi airport has been witnessing dense fog since Christmas.
Last night, fog enveloped the new runway of the airport, while there was shallow haze on the main and second runways.
This led to implementation of low visibility procedures (LVP) at the new runway around 10 PM and flights operated using various categories of instrument landing system.
The LVP was lifted around 7.56 AM but again it was implemented when the runway visibility dropped to less than 900 metres around 10 AM. It was terminated around 4.55 PM.
With the visibility largely remaining low throughout the day as fog continued to envelop the airport, the airport authorities had to implement LVP for the third time around 5.44 PM.
Since last night around 302 flights operated using CAT-I instrument landing system.
About 300 flights have been affected due to fog in the past three days.
Met department has predicted that visibility at the airport may remain below 200 metres in dense fog between 9.30 PM and 10.30 AM tomorrow.
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