Dense fog hangs thick over Amritsar, slowing down most departures. Some planes, instead of landing at the airport, were diverted to elsewhere.
Dense fog thickened just after dawn, snarling flights at Amritsar’s international airport. Morning schedules cracked under icy air near Mohali at Chandigarh airport as well. Visibility shrank sharply across both terminals by late sunrise. Chilled winds pressed down, compounding delays for domestic and international flights.
Dense fog hung heavy over northern India, slowing travel. Several flights from the Amritsar airport faced holdups because of poor visibility. Some planes rerouted - sent instead to hubs like Delhi or Jaipur. Conditions weren’t smoother in Chandigarh either. A number of local departures crawled behind schedule by two, sometimes three hours.
Airport boards show six trips running late, according to Skyscanner's display.
Right now, these planes haven’t arrived when they were supposed to. Some of them are behind schedule by quite a bit.
IndiGo flight 6E5103 from Delhi airport
IndiGo flight 6E106 from Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport
IndiGo flight 6E201 arriving from Kolkata
IndiGo flight 6E2280 departing from Delhi airport
IndiGo: 6E1428; Origin - Sharjah
Fog thick enough to halt flights now snarls roads and rail lines across parts of Punjab and Chandigarh. The IMD weather predictions warns visibility will stay severely low in Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, plus nearby zones like Mohali.
Fresh news comes from Amritsar where the airport director, Bhupendra Singh, shared details with True Scoop. Conditions in the sky above the runway are better today. Operation of planes might follow original timetables soon after this change. While nothing is certain yet, signs point toward smoother movement by schedule.
