Fog effect: Early morning flights to North India rescheduled

On the other hand,it has cancelled its flight from Delhi to Chandigarh altogether for the first week of January citing poor visibility conditions at the Chandigarh airport. These flights have been rescheduled regularly over the last few days and this is likely to continue in January as well. ATC officials said flights from many fog hit stations including Chandigarh and Delhi continue to be delayed by an average of an hour.

On Friday,Go Air’s flight to Chandigarh was delayed by around 3 hours because of the weather. According to flight tracking website flightstats.com,Jet Airways cancelled its 7 am flight from Mumbai to Delhi on Friday.

Early morning flights to destinations such as Bangalore are also going to be uncertain because of fog affecting other stations as well. On Tueday,Go Air’s  flight to udaipur was delayed by over four hours after aircraft was delayed at Bangalore on account of fog. On Thursday,airlines had cancelled some of their flights to Jammu and Srinagar because of the snow,although operations resumed on Friday.

“As of now,there is not much demand for these flights because of the holiday season,but it is likely to change in the new year,” said Rajesh Rateria,president of the Travel Agents’ Association of India.