Fog halts flight operations at Dhaka airport for 6hrs

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport were disrupted for six hours since early Sunday due to dense fog, leading to cancelation of all domestic flights and diversion of one international flight. "The airport was covered with thick fog leading to diversion of Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka fight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to Kolkata. Besides, all domestic flights were cancelled as the runway visibility dropped since 5:10am," said Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Public Relations Officer Rezaul Karim. Poor runway visibility forced the airport authorities to stop both inbound and outbound flight operations, the officer said adding that a domestic flight left the airport after 11am as fog disappeared. Flight operations at the airport were suspended for over three and half hours from 2:10am to 5:50am since January 1 due to runway's renovation work. And it would continue till March 31, said the CAAB official. All airlines were also informed the matter and they rescheduled their flights, he further said.