<p>Kolkata: Around 60 flights were delayed at the Kolkata airport on Monday due to poor visibility, an official said.</p>.<p>Due to dense fog, low visibility procedures (LVP) had to be implemented at the airport from 7 am, he said.</p>.<p>The ATC declares LVP when visibility falls below 800 metres. It is also activated when the cloud ceiling is below 200 feet.</p>.<p>According to the Director of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBIA), Pravat Ranjan Beuria, no traffic movement took place from 7.10 am to 9 am, and around 30 flight arrivals and 30 departures were delayed, the airport director said.</p>.Mamata successful where even Netaji wasn't: TMC leader Kunal Ghosh.<p>The visibility had dropped below the permissible limit for commercial aircraft operations on Monday morning, he said.</p>.<p>The Kolkata airport is equipped with CAT-III B Instrument Landing System (ILS), which allows compatible aircraft and CAT III B trained pilots to operate with visibility up to 50 metres.</p>.<p>However, the visibility at Kolkata airport turned close to zero on Monday morning, which ruled out operations completely till 9 am, the official said.</p>.<p>The last flight departed from the airport at 3.35 am after which the visibility dropped.</p>.<p>In addition, seven flights to Kolkata were diverted to other airports such as Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Hyderabad and Nagpur, he said.</p>.<p>All arrangements were made to facilitate the stranded passengers in the airport terminal, Beuria said.</p>.<p>He said that visibility conditions improved after 9 am, and the first flight to arrive at the airport was from Dubai at 9.04 am.</p>.<p>The initial delays on Monday, both incoming and outgoing, will have a consequential effect throughout the day, airport sources said.</p>.<p>On Sunday, at least four flights had to be diverted to Kolkata due to very poor visibility at all the airports in Bangladesh, they said. </p>
<p>Kolkata: Around 60 flights were delayed at the Kolkata airport on Monday due to poor visibility, an official said.</p>.<p>Due to dense fog, low visibility procedures (LVP) had to be implemented at the airport from 7 am, he said.</p>.<p>The ATC declares LVP when visibility falls below 800 metres. It is also activated when the cloud ceiling is below 200 feet.</p>.<p>According to the Director of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBIA), Pravat Ranjan Beuria, no traffic movement took place from 7.10 am to 9 am, and around 30 flight arrivals and 30 departures were delayed, the airport director said.</p>.Mamata successful where even Netaji wasn't: TMC leader Kunal Ghosh.<p>The visibility had dropped below the permissible limit for commercial aircraft operations on Monday morning, he said.</p>.<p>The Kolkata airport is equipped with CAT-III B Instrument Landing System (ILS), which allows compatible aircraft and CAT III B trained pilots to operate with visibility up to 50 metres.</p>.<p>However, the visibility at Kolkata airport turned close to zero on Monday morning, which ruled out operations completely till 9 am, the official said.</p>.<p>The last flight departed from the airport at 3.35 am after which the visibility dropped.</p>.<p>In addition, seven flights to Kolkata were diverted to other airports such as Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Hyderabad and Nagpur, he said.</p>.<p>All arrangements were made to facilitate the stranded passengers in the airport terminal, Beuria said.</p>.<p>He said that visibility conditions improved after 9 am, and the first flight to arrive at the airport was from Dubai at 9.04 am.</p>.<p>The initial delays on Monday, both incoming and outgoing, will have a consequential effect throughout the day, airport sources said.</p>.<p>On Sunday, at least four flights had to be diverted to Kolkata due to very poor visibility at all the airports in Bangladesh, they said. </p>