Dense fog disrupts flights at Kolkata airport
Flight services went haywire on Sunday as the city woke up to a chilly morning, enveloped in a thick fog with a significant drop in visibility.
Flight services went haywire on Sunday as the city woke up to a chilly morning, enveloped in a thick fog with a significant drop in visibility.
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Gen. VK Singh (Retd) said that the DGCA engages with stakeholders every year ahead of the fog period to ensure its preparedness for fog-related operations.
Go First said: “We regret to inform that due to operational reasons, Go First flights scheduled till 25th July 2023 have been cancelled."
After this, Air India replied and promised a solution soon. However, despite this, people had to suffer for more than six hours.
According to the release, the incident took place in flight number 6E 308 from IGI Airport at around 7:56 AM on Friday.
The seventh Operation Dost flight reached earthquake-hit Syria on Sunday with over 23 tons of relief material which was received by Deputy Minister of Local Administration & Environment Moutaz Douaji at Damascus airport.
According to CIAL officials, there were no diversion or runway blockages and the emergency was withdrawn at 8.36 pm.
China is seeking to increase the number of scheduled flights to Thailand by five times next month, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT).
Earlier, on July 5, a Dubai-bound SpiceJet flight from New Delhi made a precautionary landing in Pakistan's Karachi airport after the pilot developed a technical glitch.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that nine airports are running in Uttar Pradesh and air connectivity has vastly improved in five years. The work of connecting other countries is also going on.