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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: The flight frequency has come down and the rails have no schedule to follow as chill firms the grip across North India.
After heavy snowfall in the upper reaches, the weather in the Kashmir valley improved, though the cold wave condition intensified its grip in the upper reaches. Many areas of Jammu, including City and also Srinagar and its adjoining areas received over 8 mm of rain on Saturday and Sunday. The traffic on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was also restored on Sunday.
In Snowfall in the higher reaches coupled with rain in Shimla and lower regions has been reported from Himachal Pradesh. Met office said, snowfall continued in high altitude Lahual and Spiti, Kinnaur and Kullu districts. Snowfall also occurred in mountain peaks of Pooh, Kalpa and Chitkul in Kinnaur district. Vehicular traffic was stopped in Lahual and Spiti district.
In Uttar Pradesh, plummeting temperatures claimed seven lives in the few days. Fog covered many places in the state and the National Capital Delhi this morning. At least 10 trains coming to Delhi from North East are delayed due to fog. Ten flights out of Delhi are also delayed and 3 flights cancelled.
Reports reaching here from New Delhi and other areas said that air and rail traffic was on Sunday affected due to heavy fog with about 50 flights being delayed, two cancelled and eight diverted from the IGI airport here while over 25 Delhi-bound trains were running late by varying periods, some by even 11 hours.
Dense fog started to envelope the airport at around 9.30 pm last night with runway visibility dropping to 600 metres, forcing the airport authorities to implement the low visibility procedures (LVP).
"The LVP was implemented at 9.44 pm when the runway visibility range (RVR) dropped to 800 metres and lasted for 12 hours 42 minutes and terminated this morning at 10.26 am, when RVR improved significantly to 1200 metres," a DIAL spokesperson said.
The airlines were forced to divert their flights to Lahore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Mumbai as the runway visibility continued to deteriorate and dropped to 75 metres.
A total of eight flights to the national capital were diverted. Three Air India's flights from Dubai to Delhi were diverted to Jaipur, while Jet Airways' Dubai-Delhi flight was diverted to Mumbai.
One Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi to Delhi was diverted to Lahore in Pakistan, while Gulf Air's Bahrain-Delhi flight was diverted to Mumbai. Also, One Moscow-Delhi flight of Seroflot was diverted to Mumbai and Eva Airways' Taipei-Delhi flight had to be diverted to Ahmedabad due to zero-visibility condition at Delhi, the spokesperson added.
Two Kingfisher flights were cancelled due to fog while Air-India's Delhi-Kabul flight was cancelled due to bad weather condition at Kabul airport, officials said.
Dense fog was witnessed in the morning between 5 am to 8 am, which resulted in the delay of several flights out of Delhi.
Around 10 Kingfisher flights flying out of Delhi were delayed by upto two hours while three incoming flights were also delayed due to fog, a Kingfisher airline spokesperson said. A number of flights coming from various destinations were delayed by upto four hours.
"No flights were cancelled due to bad weather in Delhi. However, our Dubai-Jaipur-Delhi flight was diverted to Jaipur at around 5.25 am due to zero visibility at the airport here," an Air-India spokesperson said.
The low-cost carrier Indigo also said that its flight remained unaffected due to the fog. Airlines made efforts to inform the passengers about the change in their flight timings.
However, some passengers who came from abroad complained that no information about their flights was available. "I came from Finland this morning and I have to go to Pune but the airlines are not providing me any information about my flight and I have been standing here since early morning," said Rahul, who arrived at IGI early this morning.
Some domestic passengers also complained that they were not informed by the airlines about the timing of their flight.
"The IGI airport will tonight also experience very dense fog and at present the visibility may drop to less than 300 metres," R K Jenamani Director IGI Met Department said. Meanwhile, over two dozen trains approaching Delhi were running late BY upto 11 hours due to heavy fog in the region.
"The trains are running late due to heavy fog. We will try to reschedule minimum number of trains which will depart from Delhi," a Northern Railway official said.
"Though the trains are running late by upto 11 hours, we will not cancel any train today," he said.
The trains running late include Jhelum Express, Andhra Pradesh Express, Yasvanthpur Sampark Kranti Express, Ranchi Rajdhani Express, Patna Raj Express, Bilaspur Rajdhani Express, Mewar Express, GT Express, Bihar Amritsar Express and Lichchavi Express.
New Delhi bound Lichchavi Express is running late by 11 hours, according to railway officials.
In addition to these, Indore-Nizamuddin Intercity, Farakka Express, Mahabhodhi Express, Gorakh Dham Vaishali Express, Purva Express, Shivganga Express, Maghad Express, Vikramashila Express, Sampurna Kranti, Janshadhran Express and Muzaffarpur Sampark Kranti Express were also running late by more then two hours, they said.
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