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The Union civil aviation ministry has asked airport officials at Delhi, Mumbai and four other metro cities to set up war rooms to monitor operations and report any issues three times a day, minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Tuesday as the government announced more steps to ease the chaos triggered by dense fog.I)..
The delays and cancellations, triggered by dense fog in the early mornings which led to operation halts, prompted the minister to ask the regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to issue new procedures and the Delhi airport to accelerate work on runways undergoing maintenance..
On Tuesday, he said that in addition to those measures, the government has sought incidence reporting thrice daily for all the 6 metro airports, and for operators of these facilities as well as airlines to set up control rooms in these six cities Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata to address any issues with regard to passenger inconvenience with immediacy..
In a letter to the government, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) cited supply chain issues and a ban on construction for pollution mitigation as reasons for the delay in restarting operations on runway 28/10..
The weather conditions leading to the chaos are unlikely to completely relent soon, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said, forecasting orange alert for cold wave for two more days with spells of dense fog likely till Thursday..
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