Flight services at Swami Vivekananda Airport here was affected in morning hours on Friday till 8.30 am due to poor visibility.
As a result, the early morning Air India flight was diverted to Nagpur. The operations then resumed after 8.30 am after the visibility reached 1200 meters in mist.
As per Airport authorities, the Indigo flights from Indore, Hyderabad, and Delhi were delayed by more than half-an-hour while the Kolkata flight was delayed by around two hours. Air India flight from New Delhi to Raipur scheduled to arrive at 7.05 am was diverted to Nagpur and it returned to Raipur at 10.19 am.
Similarly, the JetLite flight from Mumbai was to arrive at 8.00 am which arrived at 10.28 am and Jet Airways flight from Delhi arrived at 10.35 am. The scheduled time of arrival of flight was 8.10 am.
The Indigo flight departure from Raipur to Kolkata and Delhi was delayed by an hour and departed at 10.33 am and 10.38 am respectively. The outgoing flights from Raipur to Hyderabad and Indore of Indigo, JetLite to Mumbai, Air India to Delhi and Jet Airways to Delhi departed late.