With the effect of cyclone ‘Pethai’ persisting for the third consecutive day in parts of Chhattisgarh , host of flight services to Raipur continued to be affected due to bad weather on Wednesday.
As per reports, around six flights were affected till 10.00 am as no flight landed in Swami Vivekananda Airport till that time here. The Raipur-bound passengers were stranded in airports in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and other cities.
As per information received, due to bad weather conditions three flights of Indigo, one of Air India and two of Jet Airways were affected. The authorities said that due to heavy cover of fog, all the flights were delayed. An Air India Delhi-Raipur flight was delayed by around five hours.
Airport Authorities informed that the visibility at 7.00 am was just 50 metres, 9.00 am at around 100 metres which then reached 1200 metres at 10.00 am in Raipur. The flights then started landing after 10.00 am.
The authorities said Indigo flight number 6E 245 Kolkata- Raipur-Indore scheduled time of arrival was 7.15 am which arrived at 11.15 am with delay of around four hours. The Delhi-Raipur-Hyderabad Indigo flight number 6E 2757 scheduled to arrive at 8.35 am arrived at 10.37 am and delayed by two hours which departed at 11.18 am.
Bangalore-Raipur-Bangalore Indigo Flight number 6E-405 scheduled to arrive at 9.50 am arrived half an hour late at 10.20 am.
Similarly, Flight number 9W 746-350 Delhi-Raipur-Delhi flight was scheduled at 8.10 am was delayed by around four hours which arrived at 11.59 am. Mumbai-Raipur-Mumbai flight scheduled to arrive at 8.25 am was also delayed by around four hours and arrived at 12.18 pm.
Air India flight AI477 from Delhi-Raipur-Delhi was scheduled to arrive at 7.05 am which arrived at 12.03 pm delayed by around five hours.