Bad weather grounds 3 flights to city, delays 9

Tribune News Service

Mohali, December 27

Three flights were cancelled while three others arrived late by two hours at the Chandigarh international airport here today. Six other flights were delayed by 15 to 40 minutes.

A flight from Dharamsala, which is operated by Air India and was regularly getting late, was cancelled today. It could not take off from the source due to bad weather.

The GoAir G8-381 Mumbai-Chandigarh flight was also cancelled. The flight is being cancelled for the past three days after it had to make an emergency return to the source minutes after take-off as the pilot detected some snag in the aircraft. A morning flight from Delhi, which is operated by GoAir and was consistently getting late by over four hours, was cancelled today.

Meanwhile, the IndiGo 6E-6517, the AirAsia I5-325 and the Indigo 6E-592 flights from Bangalore to Chandigarh were delayed by two hours.

The Air India AI-9831 flight from Delhi arrived late by an hour and five minutes. The flight with scheduled to arrive at 6:15 pm but it reached here at 7:20 pm. Subsequently, it departed late.

Other major flights to be affected were from Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Srinagar. These reached late by 15 to 40 minutes.