At least two early morning flights were diverted or diverted to their original destinations as flights could not land at Visakhapatnam airport on Saturday due to poor visibility due to dense fog.
Airport director K. According to Srinivasa Rao, an IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam which was to fly again to Tirupati was diverted and taken back to Hyderabad and another Air India flight from Delhi to Visakhapatnam to Port Blair was diverted. Turned towards Bhubaneshwar.
But according to him, the situation improved by 10 am and the flights were called back and operations went smoothly thereafter.
Due to dense fog, we had to stop some flights at initial destinations, but were cleared after visibility conditions improved around 10 am. Thereafter, all flights landed and took off, IndiGo manager Mr Srikkanth said.
This was the second time this winter that the morning program was disrupted due to dense fog. The last time was on December 25 last year.