The season’s first intense fog threw flights into disarray on Monday (December 15, 2025) at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport as hundreds of flights were delayed and some diverted when departures were halted for nearly six hours till 10 a.m. Landings occurred intermittently as visibility dropped below permissible levels.
IndiGo, which has already been witnessing hundreds of flight cancellations since the beginning of December, announced it was cancelling 145 flights due to poor visibility conditions.
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Runway visual range (visibility with runway lights on) was between 75 metres to 100 metres at 7 a.m., below the minimum permissible level of 125 metres needed for takeoffs. There were no takeoffs at IGI airport till 10 a.m. on Monday, after which departures resumed slowly.
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