Heavy rains cause major flight disruptions at Chennai airport

CHENNAI: Flight services were affected in the Chennai airport following the rain on Tuesday. The flights were operated by a delay but no flights were cancelled.

The Indigo Airlines flights from Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, and Kolkata were made to wait in the air for a long time because of rain.

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Airport officials also inspected the flights for safety, and clearance for landing was given after inspections on the runway.

Flights from Delhi, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Lucknow were delayed for a while. A total of 15 flight services were affected following the rain.

Officials said that since it wasn’t heavy rain with no lightning and thunder, flights were “only delayed, and not cancelled”.