Congestion causes flight delays at Delhi airport
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New Delhi: Traffic congestion caused more than 350 flights to be delayed at the Delhi airport on Saturday. Social media users posted videos and images of travellers who were waiting at the airport.
Due to bad weather, operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were hampered on Friday night. As a result, operations were also impacted on Saturday.
"Flight operations at Delhi Airport are improving; however, a few flights are still impacted due to last night's weather conditions.
"Our on-ground teams and all stakeholders are working together to minimise any inconvenience to passengers," DIAL said in a post on X at 1407 hours.
As per data available on flight tracking website Flightradar24.com, more than 350 flights have been delayed and the average delay for flight departures was over 40 minutes.
"Ongoing air traffic congestion in Delhi is causing flights to be held for takeoff and landing clearance. Due to the consequential impact, a few flights across the network are impacted too," IndiGo said in a post on X at 1332 hours.
Meanwhile, only three runways are operational at the airport now as one runway is closed for maintenance works.
With PTI inputs