Flight operations at Delhi airport returning to regular, says DIAL

Airline operations on the Delhi airport, the nation’s busiest airport, had been slowly returning to normalcy on Saturday (November 8, 2025) morning, a day after a glitch with the air visitors management system delayed greater than 800 flights.

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The technical downside with the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), which helps the air visitors management’s flight planning course of, continued for over 15 hours from round 5:45 a.m. on Friday earlier than the Airports Authority of India (AAI) mentioned at round 9 p.m. that the problem has been addressed.

The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) within the nationwide capital, which has 4 runways, handles greater than 1,500 flight actions each day.

Delhi airport operator DIAL on Saturday (November morning mentioned the technical difficulty which affected the AMSS is steadily enhancing.

“Airline operations at Delhi Airport are returning to normal, and all concerned authorities are working diligently to minimise any inconvenience caused,” it mentioned in a put up on X.

Apart from over 800 flights that confronted delays, some companies had been additionally cancelled on Friday, impacting a whole bunch of passengers.

The nation’s largest airline, IndiGo, on Saturday (November 8) morning mentioned the airport operator and Air Traffic Control (ATC) groups had been engaged on precedence to totally restore programs and stabilise operations.

“The situation is expected to be normalised over the next few hours. During this period, some departure and arrival timings may continue to be adjusted,” it mentioned in a put up on X.

Information accessible on flight monitoring web site Flightradar24.com confirmed that over 200 flights had been delayed on the airport, together with arrivals and departures, on Saturday morning.

It couldn’t be instantly ascertained whether or not the flight delays had been solely as a result of AMSS difficulty which is steadily enhancing.

While the AMSS began dealing with the technical difficulty Thursday late afternoon, the outage with the system occurred at round 5:45 am on Friday, following which air visitors controllers needed to put together flight plans manually, in accordance with sources.

The AAI, which gives navigation and different companies, had additionally deployed extra manpower to organize the flight plans manually which is a time-consuming course of.

On Friday night, the AAI mentioned it has addressed the “technical issue in the AMSS, which caused delays in processing flight plan messages”.

The difficulty was detected within the IP-based AMSS system on November 6.

“The OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) was engaged, and extra workers had been deployed to manually course of Flight Plans for the Air Traffic Control system to make sure uninterrupted and protected air visitors operations instantly.

“A team of ECIL officials and AAI personnel is still on site. The AMSS systems are up and functional now. Due to some backlogs, there may be some delays in the normal functioning of automated operations, but the situation will be normal soon,” the AAI had mentioned.