Mumbai Rains: Runway Operations Halted At Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport; Many Flights Diverted, 50 Cancelled – News18

Heavy rains in Mumbai have led to disruptions in not simply street and rail site visitors, however air site visitors as nicely. The operations on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Worldwide Airport has been briefly suspended amid heavy rains, resulting in a number of flights being diverted and over 50 getting cancelled.

As per the most recent replace from the Mumbai airport authorities, heavy rains and low visibility led to the suspension of runway operations from 2:22 am to three:40 am on Monday. At the very least 27 flights have been diverted as a result of this suspension.

In the meantime, 51 flights have been cancelled to and from Mumbai until 11 am on Monday, the CSMIA instructed CNBC-TV18. A complete of 42 IndiGo flights have been cancelled, which included 22 arrivals and 20 departures, 6 Air India flights (3 arrivals and three departures) have been cancelled, 2 Air India Specific flights have been cancelled and 1 Qatar Airways departure was cancelled on Sunday night time as a result of an FDTL situation.

Flights that have been scheduled to land in Mumbai have been diverted to different locations like Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Indore. The airport authorities mentioned that precedence was being given to arrivals, and consequential modifications that have been made to accommodate diverted flights, delaying departures.

Journey Advisory For Passengers

The CSMIA additionally requested passengers to verify their flight standing prematurely. “In gentle of the inclement climate and forecast of heavy to very heavy rains, Mumbai Airport advises all of the passengers to verify their flight standing with their respective airways and depart for the airport a bit earlier,” CSMIA posted on X (beforehand Twitter).

Journey advisories have been additionally issued by airways together with IndiGo and SpiceJet as flights scheduled to land in Mumbai have been diverted.

Passengers’ Woes

Passengers took to social media to publish about points being confronted by them as a result of operations getting hampered at Mumbai airport.

“Selected an awesome night time to take a 11:30 pm flight from Bangalore to Mumbai. In loopy thunderstorms pilot couldn’t land in Mumbai terminal, so took us to Ahmedabad. Reaching there discovered that Ahmedabad airport is max’d out so took us to Indore, the place we lastly landed. I believed chalo god needed me to have poha for breakfast. However no such luck, we stayed inside, as re-fueling occurred and waited for Mumbai climate to get higher. Took off at 5 and at last landed in Mumbai at 6 and received out of airplane at 7. Felt like a Shawshank Redemption second tbh (sic),” standup comic Abhijit Ganguly posted on X.

An X person requested individuals to depart for airport early as a result of waterlogging at powai L&T junction.

Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rains since Sunday. All faculties and faculties have been shut as waterlogging was reported from a number of areas. The motion of native trains was additionally disrupted as a result of waterlogging on railway tracks.