As many as six flights were cancelled due to inclement weather conditions and 13 others due to operational reasons.
Flight operations remained disrupted at the Patna airport on the second consecutive day owing to the devastating effect of cyclone Tauktae in several states on Tuesday.
As many as six flights were cancelled due to inclement weather conditions and 13 others due to operational reasons. IndiGo and SpiceJet cancelled one flight each to and from Ahmedabad. SpiceJet cancelled its flights to Pune and Hyderabad while IndiGo cancelled one flight to Delhi and GoAir its Mumbai flight.
Patna-Mumbai flight (6E-9112) departed late while G8-352 arrived late by more than 45 minutes, which delayed its departure as well.
Altogether 23 flights landed at Patna airport on Tuesday while 22 departed. The number of flights at city airport has already gone down from 48 to 42 since April last week and it was further reduced to 27-28 by May-mid due to the lockdown amid the Covid pandemic.
The airport’s deputy general manager (air traffic management), Santosh Kumar, said only few fights got cancelled because of bad weather conditions while several others were cancelled due operational reasons. “The number of flights at Patna airport has reduced to 26-32 due to low occupancy in aeroplanes. The airlines cancelled the flights on their own,” he said, adding that he was not aware of any diversion of Patna-bound flights due to the cyclone affect.
Flyers rued flights cancellation. One Dhiraj Kumar from Chappra said he got the message about the rescheduling of Patna-Hyderabad flight for the next day. “The airlines did not mention the reason. However, I have to travel today at any cost,” he said.
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