Staff Reporter :
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka resumed on Tuesday morning after disruption for nearly seven hours due to dense fog.
Domestic flights started operations at 10:00 in the morning.
Flight operations on domestic and international routes remained suspended since 3:30am, said Airport’s Deputy Director Beni Madhab Biswas.
Meanwhile, four international flights were diverted to Kolkata while no flight could take off from the airport till 9:25am, he added.
At 10:37am in the morning, as per the Air Quality Index, the air visuality turned the worst.
In the morning, a US-Bangla flight left for Kuala Lumpur after the fog lifted.
On the other hand, passengers of different international routes said that some of the flights delayed more than 12 hours.
“My Biman flight for Dhaka to Muscat was scheduled on 8:45pm Tuesday. But finally left the airport at 12pm on Wednesday,” Zannatul Mawa Jim, an Oman bound Bangladeshi expatriate told The New Nation.
Dense fog often disrupts operations at the country’s airports during winter.
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka resumed on Tuesday morning after disruption for nearly seven hours due to dense fog.
Domestic flights started operations at 10:00 in the morning.
Flight operations on domestic and international routes remained suspended since 3:30am, said Airport’s Deputy Director Beni Madhab Biswas.
Meanwhile, four international flights were diverted to Kolkata while no flight could take off from the airport till 9:25am, he added.
At 10:37am in the morning, as per the Air Quality Index, the air visuality turned the worst.
In the morning, a US-Bangla flight left for Kuala Lumpur after the fog lifted.
On the other hand, passengers of different international routes said that some of the flights delayed more than 12 hours.
“My Biman flight for Dhaka to Muscat was scheduled on 8:45pm Tuesday. But finally left the airport at 12pm on Wednesday,” Zannatul Mawa Jim, an Oman bound Bangladeshi expatriate told The New Nation.
Dense fog often disrupts operations at the country’s airports during winter.
