Times of Islamabad

Flight operations disrupted at Lahore and Karachi Airports due dense fog

Flight operations disrupted at Lahore and Karachi Airports due dense fog

KARACHI/LAHORE: Several flights at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airportand Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport were delayed due to foggyconditions in both cities.

At Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, a flight ER-540 of a privateairline to Quetta was delayed for five hours and rescheduled to fly at 1:00pm today. Another flight, ER-502, of a private airline to Lahore took offfrom the airport at 9:00 am after the one-hour delay.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, PK-302, delayed for anhour which was going to depart for Lahore. PIA’s flight to Islamabad,PK-300, was delayed for 45 minutes and another flight of a private airlineto Jeddah, SV-707 was delayed for 1.5 hours.

At Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, four flights have beencancelled and 10 others were delayed due to dense fog and technical issues.