Ditwah disrupts flights to & from SL

Chennai: Flights connecting Chennai with Sri Lanka were affected on Friday as Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc in the island nation. Indigo and SriLankan Airlines aircrafts were delayed, diverted, and cancelled.An Indigo aircraft from Colombo, which was supposed to land in Chennai at 4.30am, was delayed by two hours due to bad weather in Colombo. Another Indigo aircraft was delayed by five hours and landed at 3.30pm. A SriLankan Airlines aircraft scheduled to land in Chennai around 8.40pm, arrived an hour late, and another was delayed by four hours. This affected departures from Chennai to Sri Lanka. An Indigo aircraft which had a delayed departure at 11.54am, was diverted to Coimbatore as it could not land in Colombo; it then reached Colombo two hours later.Chennai airport sources said a SriLankan Airlines aircraft to Colombo was cancelled. Sources in Air India confirmed that about three flights from different cities to Sri Lanka were cancelled. Indigo sources said their flights to Jaffna were cancelled, while diverted flights returned to Sri Lanka after weather stabilized.