Air India Express Cancels Flights at Chennai Airport Due to Heavy Rainfall
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Chennai, Dec 12 (NationPress) Continuous heavy rains have caused the cancellation of four flights of Air India Express that were scheduled to operate and arrive at Chennai Airport on December 12.
Airport officials have recommended that passengers reach out to their respective airlines to verify flight arrival and departure timings.
As per Air India Express, a flight to Kolkata that was scheduled to depart at 10:40 P.M. on Thursday has been cancelled.
In addition, an Air India Express flight arriving from Thiruvananthapuram at 1:45 P.M., a flight from Siliguri set to land at 6:10 P.M., and another flight coming in from Kolkata at 10:00 P.M. have also been cancelled.
It is noteworthy that on Wednesday, seven departure flights and five arrival flights at Chennai Airport were cancelled due to various reasons.
Flights heading to Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Shimoga, Bagdogra, Jaffna, and Kolkata were cancelled on Wednesday.
Moreover, flights arriving from Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Kochi, Kolkata, and Jaffna were also cancelled on that day.
Airport officials disclosed that eight flights faced cancellation due to operational issues, while two flights encountered technical difficulties.
Poor weather conditions in Jaffna were cited as the reason for the cancellation of both departure and arrival flights on that route.
In a different incident, a flight traveling from New Delhi to Chennai was diverted to Bengaluru on Wednesday morning after rain disrupted operations.
The flight, which was supposed to land at 10:00 A.M., could not do so because of adverse weather.
These events contribute to a series of aviation challenges that Chennai Airport has been facing in recent days.
On Monday (December 9), a SpiceJet flight from Chennai to Kochi had to make an emergency return to Chennai Airport after experiencing a technical glitch mid-air.
The flight, carrying 117 passengers, landed safely back at 7:15 A.M. after taking off at 6:30 A.M.
During Cyclone Fengal, an IndiGo Airbus A320 narrowly avoided an incident while trying to land at Chennai Airport.
The pilot aborted the landing just inches from the ground and executed a go-around.
A flight that was scheduled to arrive in Thoothukudi was diverted to Madurai due to technical issues. After circling for a brief period, the aircraft made a safe emergency landing in Madurai. Among the 77 passengers was Tamil Nadu’s Public Works Minister, E.V. Velu.
It is important to note that the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has issued ‘orange’ and ‘yellow’ alerts for several districts in Tamil Nadu.
This comes in the wake of a well-marked low-pressure system developing over the southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal, near the coast of Sri Lanka.
This system, accompanied by an upper-air cyclonic circulation extending to mid-tropospheric levels, is expected to move west-northwestward toward the Tamil Nadu-Sri Lanka coastline within the next 24 hours.
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