Five Dabolim flights hit by rain re-routing

Vasco: Five domestic flights that were scheduled to arrive at Dabolim airport were diverted to Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports due to the prevailing bad weather conditions, late in the evening on Tuesday.
About 800 passengers travelling to Goa by the five flights had to endure hardships as diversions became inevitable.
The same number of passengers were stranded at Dabolim airport as airlines scrambled to reschedule flights because of the vagaries of the weather.
Sources in the aviation industry said the stranded passengers at Dabolim airport were flown to their destinations after the arrival of the diverted flights, well after midnight.
The sources said that a Goa-bound Vistara flight from Bengaluru was diverted to Hyderabad and a Goa-bound IndiGo flight from Mumbai was also diverted to Hyderabad.
The sources added that a Goa-bound IndiGo flight returned to its origin, Bengaluru; while a Goa-bound IndiGo flight from Delhi was diverted to Bengaluru, as was a Goa-bound IndiGo flight from Chennai.