Bad climate under the effect of severe cyclonic storm ‘Asani’ in the Bay of Bengal hit the flight operations at Chennai airport and Vizag airport on Tuesday.
10 flights including from Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Jaipur, and Mumbai were revoked at Chennai Airport due to cyclone Asani while all flights in and out of this coastal city in Andhra Pradesh were canceled due to the severe cyclonic storm.
Indigo Airlines had canceled 2 flights from Chennai
According to reports, Indigo Airlines had canceled 2 flights from Chennai to Visakhapatnam at 7 am and 10:40 am and 2 flights from Visakhapatnam to Chennai at 10:40 am and 1.45 pm.
AirAsia had declared the cancellation of 3 flights from Chennai to Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Mumbai and 3 flights from Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Mumbai to Chennai.
IndiGo has announced the cancellation of all its flights
IndiGo has declared the cancellation of all its flights in and out of Visakhapatnam. AirAsia has canceled Delhi-Visakhapatnam and Bangalore-Visakhapatnam flights. Air India has also canceled Mumbai-Raipur-Visakhapatnam and Delhi-Visakhapatnam flights.
Flights from Kurnool, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad could not land at Visakhapatnam Airport due to bad weather and had to be sent back. Flights of various airlines from Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, and Vijayawada were also canceled.
Cyclone Asani is likely to move almost northwestwards till the night of May 10 and reach the west-central Bay of Bengal off North Andhra Pradesh coast and the adjoining Odisha coast. It is likely to trigger heavy to very heavy rains in the coastal region from Tuesday.
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It is also possible to recurve north-northeastwards and move towards the northwest Bay of Bengal off the Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coasts.
According to the latest weather update, as of 2.30 am on May 10, Cyclone Asani lay centered over west-central and adjoining the southwest Bay of Bengal. It is 330 km southeast of Andhra’s Kakinada and 510 km south-southwest of Odisha’s Gopalpur coast.
“The Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Asani’ (pronounced as Asani) over Westcentral and adjoining the southwest Bay of Bengal transferred west-northwestwards with a speed of 07 km during past 06 hours and lay centered at 0230 hours IST of today, the 10th May, over west-central and adjoining the southwest Bay of Bengal.
It is 330 km southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), 350 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 510 km south-southwest of Gopalpur (Odisha), and 590 km south-southwest of Puri (Odisha),” the bulletin.
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