Fog disrupts air, rail traffic in Delhi

Hundreds of air and train passengers had a harrowing time on Tuesday morning as the national capital was engulfed in dense fog.

At least 50 flights were delayed by hours and two arrivals had to be diverted to nearby airports as Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport witnessed zero visibility conditions.

Visibility at the airport plummeted to below 50 metres from 2.30 am on Tuesday and started improving only after 10 a.m.

Passengers had a tough time as they spent hours waiting inside aircraft for the fog cover to lift. The Delhi airport’s Terminal 1D was bursting at the seams on Tuesday morning with many passengers forced to sit on the floors due to lack of enough seating space.

Train schedules, already reeling under a huge backlog of delays from December, were further hampered, with 55 Delhi-bound trains running late by hours and 22 trains rescheduled.