Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport continued to report flight delays and diversions on Thursday, owing to the prevailing weather conditions and the main runway being unavailable for the third day in a row.

The main runway has been shut since Monday night after a SpiceJet aircraft skidded, blocking a part of the runway.

A Mumbai International Airport Ltd spokesperson said efforts were on to retrieve the disabled aircraft at the earliest. A team of Air India Engineering Services Ltd is on the job using a damaged aircraft recovery kit.

Flights are currently being operated on the secondary runway, which has less capacity, leading to delays in both arrivals and departures.

At 9 p.m., Swedish airport and airline tracking website Flightradar24 showed an average 19-minute delay in arrivals, with 183 flights delayed and 21 cancelled. Passengers said this was down from the 30-minute delay in the morning.

On the departure side, the website showed a 62-minute delay in take-offs, with 321 flights being delayed and 25 cancelled. This was an increase from the 58-minute delays in departures from the morning.

In a statement, IndiGo said that owing to the closure of the main runway, compounded by the severe weather conditions, a substantial number of cancellations and diversions for the airline and other airlines had to be implemented. “As aircraft and crew rotations go throughout the whole country, there was a ripple effect throughout the system, which caused delays not only in Mumbai but also in other parts of the country and also affected some international flights,” an IndiGo spokesperson said.

The airline said another effect was that aircraft had to divert to different places because of the main runway closure and needed to be recovered to put it in the right rotational sequence. “This has led to a situation in which the flight duty time of the operating crew becomes a limiting factor. Flight duty times are a mandatory requirement with zero tolerance, which IndiGo is adhering to,” the airline said in a statement, apologising for passenger hardship.

Air India’s regional director, western region, Mukesh Bhatia said the airline had imposed payload restriction on its flights to Newark from Mumbai. “Till the runway reopens, the flight will make a technical halt at Ahmedabad before heading to the United States,” Mr. Bhatia said.

Vistara, in a statement, said that because of heavy rains in Mumbai, its flights could be impacted. The airline requested passengers to check for updated flight status. Similarly, Go Air asked passengers to contact its airport staff for details and assistance.

Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued show cause notices to senior SpiceJet executives, including G.P. Grewal, chief of flight safety, SPS Suri, head of operations, Vishal Sahwney, head of training, and G.P. Gupta, accountable manager.