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The ongoing method glitch astatine the Air Traffic Control (ATC) strategy of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport connected Friday (November 7), had a ripple effect astatine Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) with respective flights operating betwixt the 2 cities getting delayed.
According to information from the formation tracking level FlightRadar24, astatine slightest 21 flights betwixt Hyderabad and Delhi, including 11 arrivals and 10 departures, were delayed betwixt 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. While nary authoritative connection was issued by Hyderabad airdrome authorities, astir of the affected flights were operated by IndiGo, followed by Air India and Akasa Air.
The disruption originated from a glitch successful the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), which facilitates connection and information speech for ATC operations successful Delhi. The malfunction led to wide delays successful departing flights from the nationalist capital, triggering a cascading interaction crossed aggregate airports successful the country.
Airlines and airports took to societal media level X connected Friday greeting to alert passengers astir the disruption and counsel them to cheque for updates. IndiGo, which operates a important fig of flights connected the Delhi–Hyderabad route, archetypal posted astatine 9.05 a.m. astir delays owed to the glitch, followed by updates astatine noon and 1.14 p.m. stating that efforts were underway to reconstruct mean operations. Another alert astatine 4 p.m. confirmed that the contented was inactive being resolved.
By 7 p.m., Delhi Airport issued a connection connected X confirming that formation operations remained affected and urged passengers to travel updates from their respective airlines for revised schedules.
