{"id":313918,"date":"2019-07-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313918"},"modified":"2019-07-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:00:00","slug":"flight-operations-halted-at-mumbai-airport-due-to-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/flight-operations-halted-at-mumbai-airport-due-to-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight operations halted at Mumbai Airport due to heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313919 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mumbai-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/mumbai-airport.jpg 614w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/mumbai-airport-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Flight operations were disrupted on Monday due to heavy rain and poor visibility at the Mumbai airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A spokesperson for the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said that on account of low visibility, there were no flight movements. However, no flights had been cancelled, three flights were diverted to other airports till now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDue to heavy rains, visibility at the airport is fluctuating. No cancellation so far but three diversions took place,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Huge parts of the city and suburbs were lashed with heavy rain since early Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Heavy spells last week hit the air, road and rail traffic, forcing the authorities to declare July 2 as a public holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight operations were disrupted on Monday due to heavy rain and poor visibility at the Mumbai airport. A spokesperson for the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said that on account of low visibility, there were no flight movements. However, no flights had been cancelled, three flights were diverted to other airports till now. \u201cDue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[4986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313920,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313918\/revisions\/313920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}