Traffic passes connected a roadworthy arsenic the entity is enveloped with smog aft Delhi's aerial prime turned "severe" owed to alarming aerial pollution, successful New Delhi, India, November 18, 2024. (Photo: Reuters)
Nine flights were diverted and galore flights were delayed astatine the Delhi airdrome connected Monday owed to atrocious upwind conditions successful the nationalist capital, according to an official.
The authoritative said 8 flights were diverted to Jaipur and 1 to Dehradun.
The nationalist superior is grappling with precocious contamination levels that has besides resulted successful little visibility levels successful assorted parts of the city.
The authoritative said immoderate of the pilots were not trained for CAT III operations owed to which flights had to beryllium diverted.
Broadly, CAT III trained pilots are allowed to instrumentality disconnected oregon onshore planes astatine precise debased visibility conditions.
“Low visibility procedures are successful advancement astatine Delhi airport. All formation operations are astatine contiguous normal,” Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) said successful a station connected X aboriginal greeting connected Monday.
DIAL operates the Indira Gandhi International Airport, which handles astir 1,400 formation movements daily.
It besides advised passengers to interaction the airlines acrophobic for updated formation information.