Hyderabad, July 2 || Five flights arriving here from various destinations were diverted to other cities due to bad weather during the night, said officials here, adding that the operations were back to normal now.
As the weather at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport was not good for landings, the flights coming from Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai and Jaipur were diverted to the nearest airports on Tuesday night.
Due to poor visibility at the runway because of inclement weather, the flights were diverted to other airports.
IndiGo flight 6E 638, coming from Bengaluru, was diverted to Vijayawada Gannavaram Airport in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
Kolkata-Hyderabad IndiGo flight 6E 6528 was diverted to Bengaluru due to bad weather at Hyderabad Airport.
Lucknow-Hyderabad IndiGo flight 6E 6166 was also diverted to Bengaluru due to bad weather. IndiGo flight 6E 471, coming from Jaipur, was also diverted to Bengaluru. Another IndiGo flight (6E 5326) arriving from Mumbai was also diverted to Bengaluru.
According to airport sources, all flights later landed back at Hyderabad Airport. With the improvement in weather conditions, the operations returned to normal on Wednesday.
Parts of Greater Hyderabad and surrounding districts have been receiving rain since Tuesday night.