Thick smog blankets Chennai, flight operations affected

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Visibility has dipped to 50 meters.
  • No flights have been operated since 3.30 AM.
  • Sea breeze to pick up by 9 AM post which flight operations can be resumed.
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Image for representation.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Visibility has dipped to 50 meters.
  • No flights have been operated since 3.30 AM.
  • Sea breeze to pick up by 9 AM post which flight operations can be resumed.
12 arriving flights to Chennai airport were diverted and nearly 30 departing flights were delayed due to thick smog enveloping the city. The thick smog in the city caused by the burning of old articles on Bogi festival, that is celebrated a day before Pongal, has dipped visibili

12 arriving flights to Chennai airport were diverted and nearly 30 departing flights were delayed due to thick smog enveloping the city.

The thick smog in the city caused by the burning of old articles on Bogi festival, that is celebrated a day before Pongal, has dipped visibility to 50 meters.

No flights have been operated since 3.30 AM. Airport authority expects the sea breeze to pick up by 9 AM post which flight operations can be resumed.

Several flights have been diverted.

Diverted flights

  • Indigo - Dubai - Chennai to Bangalore | Air Arabia - Sharjah - Chennai to Bangalore | Gulf Air - Bahrain - Chennai to Bangalore
  • Etihad - Abu dhabi- Chennai to Hyderabad | Spicejet - Pune - Chennai to Hyderabad | Srilanka Airways - Colombo - Chennai to Sri Lanka
  • Air india - Muscat - Chennai to Bangalore | Spicejet - Colombo - Chennai to Hyderabad | Air india - Dubai - Chennai to Bangalore | British Airways - London- Chennai to Hyderabad

This situation had arisen last year as well.

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