SpiceJet Alert: Airline advises passengers to check flight status; flights may be affected due to fog in Delhi

Northern India is under a thick blanket of fog. In many places, visibility has been reduced to zero. New Delhi was no exception, where visibility on Wednesday (December 27, 2023) morning was as low as 50 meters. As the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted New Delhi to remain under fog, SpiceJet on Wednesday alerted all passengers to check their flight status on its website before travelling.

In an X post, the aviation company wrote, "#WeatherUpdate: Due to bad weather in Delhi (DEL), all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights may get affected. Passengers are requested to keep a check on their flight status via http://bit.ly/2tG9xBx."
 
 
According to a PTI report, two SpiceJet planes were diverted at the Delhi airport on Wednesday morning owing to severe weather. The planes were redirected to Jaipur between 0900 and 0915 hours, according to the authority. Flight operations at the Delhi airport also hampered on Tuesday owing to severe fog.

On Tuesday, as many as 120 flights arrived late in the Capital due to fog. As many as eight flights were diverted from New Delhi to Jaipur. Due to fog, airlines' on-time performance (OTP) has also been disturbed for the last two days. Only 50 per cent flights were on time in that duration. Around 38 flights to and from New Delhi were flying late till 7.30 pm on Tuesday.

Woman dies after emergency landing of SpiceJet plane
 
An elderly woman died mid-flight on a Mumbai-bound SpiceJet flight on Monday evening, forcing an emergency landing in Varanasi. Kalawati Devi, 85, was flying with her grandson from Darbhanga to Mumbai on SpiceJet aircraft SG 116. Her condition deteriorated after the jet took off from Darbhanga airport at 5.40 p.m. on Monday, and proceeded some distance.
 
Because the jet had approached the airspace of Uttar Pradesh at that point, the pilot immediately called Air Traffic Control (ATC) Varanasi for emergency landing authorisation. The woman was brought to a local hospital when the jet arrived at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi around 6 PM on Monday. After some time, the doctors certified her dead.
 
Meanwhile, shares of SpiceJet were trading at Rs 59.49 each, down 2.70 per cent at 12.43 PM on BSE on Wednesday, December 27.