IndiGo: cancels 80 flights across its network due to inclement weather
IndiGo: According to its website, IndiGo canceled 80 flights across its network on Monday because of inclement weather.
Delhi airport, which had issued a passenger alert indicating that aircraft operations from its facility were being carried out under poor visibility circumstances, is responsible for half of these 80 canceled flights.
Additionally, according to the IndiGo website, flights to and from additional airports, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Cochin, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Dehradun, Indore, Patna, and Bhopal, have been canceled.
“Foggy conditions remain in place across Delhi and several airports in northern India, with visibility yet to fully improve,” the airline said in a travel alert at 11.20 am. Because of this, the earlier effect on aircraft movements is probably going to last until noon, and some delays could still occur.
However, IndiGo did not mention canceling 80 flights on Monday in the X alert.
“We assure you that flight departures and arrivals are being sequenced to ensure steady and orderly movement, while keeping your journey and comfort in mind,” the airline said in its alert.
Due to the court-mandated stricter flight duty and rest period norms for the pilots, IndiGo cancelled thousands of flights, including 1,600 on one day, early this month, leaving lakhs of passengers stranded at multiple airports. Since the fog season began on December 10, IndiGo has been canceling flights in significant numbers.
Due to inclement weather, the airline canceled 67 flights to various airports on December 25 and 57 flights from various airports on Saturday.
The official fog window for this winter is set for December 10–February 10 of the next year, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the aviation authority.
“Flight operations are still operating under CAT III circumstances due to the ongoing severe fog, which might cause flight delays. In the passenger alert sent Monday morning, Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) said, “We ask that you visit our website or get in touch with your respective airlines for the most recent flight information.”
Airlines are required to roster pilots who have been trained to fly in poor visibility circumstances and use a fleet of aircraft that complies with DGCA fog operations (CAT-IIIB) standards.
A sophisticated navigation system called Category-III enables an airplane to land in hazy situations.
A aircraft may land with a runway visual range (RVR) of 200 meters using Category-III-A, a precision instrument approach and landing technique, and with an RVR of less than 50 meters using Category-III-B.