Severe fog brought on by a dipping mercury threw train and flight services haywire in the national capital on Wednesday morning, with scores of passengers stranded at airports and railway stations.
Reacting to the fog-induced flight disruptions, IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers on Thursday said that by the weekend and in due course of next week, he expects that the entire operation will come back to normal.
Amid a war of words over the chaotic scenes at the Delhi airport over bulk flight delays and cancellations due to the prevailing fog conditions, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia hits back at Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and said that he has already responded to the claims
Amid a war of words over the chaotic scenes at the Delhi airport over bulk flight delays and cancellations due to the prevailing fog, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor fired a fresh salvo at Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, claiming that he has adopted the 'uncaring attitude' of the
Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January- December 2023 were 15.2 crores as against 12.32 crore during the corresponding period of the previous year, thereby registering an annual growth of 23.36 percent and monthly growth of 8.34 percent.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Monday instructing all scheduled airlines to comply with it regarding flight delays and cancellations.
The aviation security agency has started an investigation into the incident of a passenger allegedly hitting an IndiGo pilot while the latter was announcing a flight delay at Delhi airport, the officials said.
As per the airline sources, the male passenger assaulted Anup Kumar, pilot of the Delhi-Goa Indigo flight (6E-2175) while the latter was making announcement about the delay on Sunday.
Passengers aboard two Air India (AI) flights experienced over eight hours and another two and a half hours of delay due to adverse weather conditions at Delhi airport.