Flight services remained affected on Wednesday due to rain in Chennai

Chennai: Flight services were affected at Chennai airport after rain on Wednesday. As it was raining in Chennai since Tuesday night, passengers who were supposed to board flights could not reach the airport on time due to road traffic and flooding.

Airport sources said that due to rain, the luggage could not be taken to the flight on time and the food and snacks that were to be loaded in the flight were also delayed. Even the cabin crew could not reach the airport from the hotel on time. After this, on Wednesday morning, flights to Singapore, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Frankfurt, Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Madurai, Vijayawada and Thiruvananthapuram were delayed by up to an hour. ,

The Indigo Airlines flight which was scheduled to depart from Thoothukudi and Coimbatore in the morning was canceled due to lack of passengers following the rain.