Dense fog has disrupted flight operations at the Saidpur Airport in northern Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, ferry services in the Paturia-Daulatria also remained halted for three hours this morning.
In Saidpur, quite a lot of flights could well also no longer land at the airport from excellent evening (9 December) to this morning (10 December) due to dense fog that diminished visibility to zero meters, reports Prothom Alo.
Passengers believe been struggling consequently, with many taking shelter in varied residential accommodations.
Saidpur Airport Supervisor AKM Bahauddin Zakaria acknowledged two Air Astra and NovoAir flights had been cancelled excellent evening due to zero visibility in the sky of Saidpur.
“If the weather improves by noon today time, flight operations will more than likely be now not new,” he told Prothom Alo.
Throughout iciness, it’s no longer doable to characteristic flights at the airport in accordance with the time desk in the morning and evening. Passengers undergo due to time desk disruptions practically every single day.
Lokman Hakim, officer-in-payment of the Saidpur Met space of business, acknowledged the temperature became as soon as recorded at 14.5 degrees Celsius at 6am today time.
“Even when air visitors will deserve to believe 2,000 meters of visibility, there might be now greatest 100 meters,” he added.
Which skill, the two-morning flights believe no longer but left Dhaka
Meanwhile, due to heavy fog, the ferry and all other services remained halted for three hours this morning at the Daulatdia and Paturia terminals in Aricha.
Authorities stopped ferry services at around 6am to handbook certain of accidents. Later, when the fog cleared, ferry services resumed at around 9:15am.
Other vessels are also plying the river now, confirmed Nasir Mohammad Chowdhury, deputy now not new supervisor of the Aricha space of business of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Company (BIWTC).
