Chennai airport suspends arrival flights until 6 p.m.; many flights diverted and delayed

Chennai airport has suspended the arrival of flight operations from 1.15 p.m. to six p.m. on Thursday because of severity of winds. Officers of the Airports Authority of India mentioned that departure flights will proceed as common.

The Twitter deal with of Chennai airport mentioned: “As a consequence of extreme rains and heavy cross winds, arrivals at #AAI Chennai Airport will stay suspended from 1315 hrs to 1800 hrs, right now. Departures will proceed. The choice has been taken contemplating the security side of passengers and severity of wind @AAI_Official”.

Twenty 4 flights have been affected at Chennai airport on Thursday morning, because of hostile climate circumstances. Eleven flights which needed to arrive within the metropolis from varied locations like Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru, Tiruchi and Madurai needed to be diverted to both Bengaluru or Hyderabad as a result of the flights couldn’t land right here.

Eleven flights from cities together with Coimbatore, Guwahati, Mumbai, London, Jaipur, Dubai, Vijaywada and Pune and three departure flights to Lucknow and Kolkata have been all delayed on Thursday morning.

Sources mentioned, because of heavy winds, flights have been discovering it tough to land on the airport and needed to hover over for some time earlier than arriving right here until about midday after which they determined to droop the arrival flights for practically 5 hours.