Hundreds of passengers were stranded at US airports following a flurry of flight delays and cancellations in the Midwest and South after a winter storm hit the country, CNN reported on Friday.
The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has asked airlines and operators to do justice to passengers amid cancellations and delays in flights due to fog and other operational-related issues.
Due to the thick fog, several flights in the Delhi Airport were delayed. The low visibility also delayed arrival and departure of several Delh-bound trains.
The Delhi airport reported delays in flight operations affecting approximately 134 flights, both arrivals and departures (domestic and international), due to fog. As many as 22 trains were delayed at the New Delhi Railway Station as well, amid low visibility.
Congress leader and MP Manish Tiwari raised the flight delay issue and questioned why only one runway of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport is operational despite being a holiday season.
A layer of dense fog was witnessed over the Delhi-NCR region on Tuesday morning, as the temperature dropped to almost 7 degrees in the national capital, according to the India Meteorological Department.
Passengers travelling on a Spicejet flight from Delhi to Patna created a nuisance with the airline staff at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday after the flight got delayed for 7 hours.
Comedian-cum-actor Kapil Sharma slammed IndiGo airline for making the passengers wait inside the ferry bus and not informing them about the reason for the delay at Chennai airport.
In a statement, the National Air Traffic Service said, "We are currently experiencing a technical issue and have applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety."
The incident came to light after the Iraqi Airways issued an apology to a passenger, who posted a video saying that the return flight to Baghdad was delayed for "over an hour due to a bear in the cargo".