A Caribbean Airlines flight to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was this morning re-routed to Trinidad because of heavy fog which enveloped the area as well as several parts of the coastland.
Dense fog has been seen in recent months and visibility has been affected. Up to 11:30 this morning passengers on flight 425 were still in Trinidad but they reported that they were expected to arrive in Guyana at 1pm.
It is not clear if other flights have been affected and when contacted, Chief Executive Officer of the airport Ramesh Ghir told Stabroek News that he could not give an immediate comment as he was away at meetings in the city for the entire morning and would have to be briefed by his officials.
Late last month flights were also delayed due to fog. Aviation sources had told Stabroek News at the time that flight delays as a result of weather conditions will be a thing of the past, since work is forging ahead on the completion of an Instrument Landing System (ILS) as well as a weather station for air traffic services at Timehri.
The two projects are expected to be completed by February next year.
The setting–up of the two facilities are part of an Air Navigation Surveillance (ANS) Modernization project and this newspaper understands that Cabinet recently approved the financing of a new Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Radio Range (VOR) to be set up at the airport.
The latter provides directional information to aircraft travelling to and from the airport while the ILS is a navigational aid, which provides guidance to aircraft landing at an airport during severe weather conditions.
Foggy conditions were experienced this morning along the Coastal belt and in some inland locations and the weather conditions brought along a simultaneous decrease in air temperature.
