{"id":305607,"date":"2023-04-04T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/04\/14-flights-diverted-6-delayed-at-bengaluru-airport-after-heavy-rain\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:01:00","slug":"14-flights-diverted-6-delayed-at-bengaluru-airport-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/04\/14-flights-diverted-6-delayed-at-bengaluru-airport-after-heavy-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Flights Diverted, 6 Delayed At Bengaluru Airport After Heavy Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"14 Flights Diverted, 6 Delayed At Bengaluru Airport After Heavy Rain\" alt=\"14 Flights Diverted, 6 Delayed At Bengaluru Airport After Heavy Rain\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-04\/7qv4dc8g_bengaluru-rain-twitter_625x300_04_April_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Due to the heavy downpour, traffic was thrown out of gear in Devanahalli.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Bengaluru: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen flights were diverted and six departures were delayed on Tuesday evening due to a heavy downpour and bad weather in Devanahalli on the city outskirts where the Kempegowda International Airport is located, airport authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Strong crosswinds and heavy rain with thunder and lightning impacted flight operations from 4.05 PM to 4.51 PM, an airport official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall 14 flights were diverted. 12 were diverted to Chennai, one to Coimbatore and one to Hyderabad. Airline wise count &#8211; seven Indigo Flights, three Vistara, two Akasa Airlines and one each of Go Air and Air India. Six departures were delayed,&#8221; the official told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that the normal operations have resumed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flights diverted to Chennai are being refueled and will return to Bengaluru shortly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met department, the KIA in Devanahalli received 45.2 mm rainfall on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the heavy downpour, traffic was thrown out of gear and normal life was paralysed in Devanahalli.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there was no rainfall in the central region of the city.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/bangalore-news\/bengaluru-rain-flight-services-hit-due-to-heavy-rain-near-bengaluru-airport-nearby-areas-3920042\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Due to the heavy downpour, traffic was thrown out of gear in Devanahalli. Bengaluru: Fourteen flights were diverted and six departures were delayed on Tuesday evening due to a heavy downpour and bad weather in Devanahalli on the city outskirts where the Kempegowda International Airport is located, airport authorities said. Strong crosswinds and heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29710,372664,372663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}