{"id":647572,"date":"2025-09-24T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647572"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:39:08","slug":"nearly-100-flights-cancelled-many-got-delayed-due-to-terrible-torrential-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nearly-100-flights-cancelled-many-got-delayed-due-to-terrible-torrential-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 flights cancelled, many got delayed due to terrible torrential rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 flights were cancelled and 95 delayed at the Calcutta airport on Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded as torrential rain battered the city from midnight. <\/p>\n<p>According to airport officials, 42 arriving flights and 49 departures were cancelled, while 33 arrivals and 62 departures faced delays, many stretching into late evening. Several flights were grounded as pilots and crew members couldn\u2019t reach the airport on time due to waterlogged roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 flights were cancelled and 95 delayed at the Calcutta airport on Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded as torrential rain battered the city from midnight. According to airport officials, 42 arriving flights and 49 departures were cancelled, while 33 arrivals and 62 departures faced delays, many stretching into late evening. Several flights were grounded as pilots and crew members couldn\u2019t reach the airport on time due to waterlogged roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647572","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}