Delhi air pollution: 19 flights cancelled, over 550 delayed and 37 diverted

Airlines caught off guard due to untimely low visibility conditions in first week of November

As many as 37 aircraft operating out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport were diverted due to a severe decline in visibility in the country’s Capital city on Sunday. More than 250 departures and 300 arrivals were delayed and 19 cancelled till 8 pm, affecting thousands of flyers.
 
Visibility on both runways of the airport dropped to 600 metres from 9 am to 1.30 pm.
 
“Due to low visibility 37 flights have been diverted to places including Jaipur, Amritsar, and Lucknow, among other cities,” said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which operates the Delhi