<p class="title">Fog has once again impacted operations at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifteen IndiGo flights – seven arrivals and eight departures – were cancelled due to the fog that engulfed the airport for four hours at dawn.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fog led to the suspension of operations between 4.44 am and 8.25 am.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At least 63 flights were delayed, out of which 54 were arrivals. Also, eight flights were diverted – four each to Hyderabad and Chennai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, fog-related delays in departures exceed the delays in arrivals as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has set up lesser visibility requirements for landings than take off.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The regulator has set the runway visual range (RVR) at 400 m for flights taking off from an airport and 550 m for those landing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In winter of the last financial year, the operations were hit on 17 days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, fog takes over the city in the winter, from November until late February.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But this winter, in a span of just two months, flight services have been hit on 11 days.</p>
<p class="title">Fog has once again impacted operations at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifteen IndiGo flights – seven arrivals and eight departures – were cancelled due to the fog that engulfed the airport for four hours at dawn.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fog led to the suspension of operations between 4.44 am and 8.25 am.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At least 63 flights were delayed, out of which 54 were arrivals. Also, eight flights were diverted – four each to Hyderabad and Chennai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, fog-related delays in departures exceed the delays in arrivals as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has set up lesser visibility requirements for landings than take off.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The regulator has set the runway visual range (RVR) at 400 m for flights taking off from an airport and 550 m for those landing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In winter of the last financial year, the operations were hit on 17 days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, fog takes over the city in the winter, from November until late February.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But this winter, in a span of just two months, flight services have been hit on 11 days.</p>