{"id":20217,"date":"2015-06-19T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=20217"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:52:43","slug":"mumbai-rains-delay-flight-operations-by-30-minutes-jet-airways-indigo-and-go-air-flights-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-rains-delay-flight-operations-by-30-minutes-jet-airways-indigo-and-go-air-flights-diverted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai rains delay flight operations by 30 minutes; Jet Airways, Indigo and Go Air flights diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight operations at the city airport were delayed by 30 minutes and three services had to be diverted due to incessant rain that has been lashing since late last evening. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The airport is operational but the flights are delayed by 30 minutes,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) said. <\/p>\n<p>One flight each of Indigo and Jet Airways had to be diverted to Ahmedabad, while a Go Air flight had to be sent to Vadodara, she said. <\/p>\n<p>The delays are due to &#8220;ATC congestion&#8221; as the rain has affected flight timings. <\/p>\n<p>As for the visibility, the spokesperson said, it is at a comfortable 800-1,000 metres at present which can support flight operations. <\/p>\n<p>A visibility of less than 500 metres can affect flight operations, she said. <\/p>\n<p>The CSIA, which includes both the domestic as well as international terminals, is one of the busiest in the country as it serves the financial capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight operations at the city airport were delayed by 30 minutes and three services had to be diverted due to incessant rain that has been lashing since late last evening. &#8220;The airport is operational but the flights are delayed by 30 minutes,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) said. One flight each of Indigo and Jet Airways had to be diverted to Ahmedabad, while a Go Air flight had to be sent to Vadodara, she said. The delays are due to &#8220;ATC congestion&#8221; as the rain has affected flight timings. As for the visibility, the spokesperson said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}