{"id":18860,"date":"2026-01-15T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18860"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:55:49","slug":"flight-operations-resume-at-karachi-airport-after-four-hour-suspension-due-to-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18860","title":{"rendered":"Flight Operations Resume at Karachi Airport After Four-Hour Suspension Due to Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2188\" data-end=\"2436\"><strong>Flight operations at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Karachi<\/span><\/span> airport were restored after a four-hour suspension caused by dense fog, although the disruption led to significant delays and cancellations of both domestic and international flights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2438\" data-end=\"2796\">According to the flight schedule, a total of 36 arrivals and departures were affected due to poor visibility, resulting in inconvenience and extended waiting times for passengers. Flights departing from Karachi to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Istanbul<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Muscat<\/span><\/span> eventually took off after delays of nearly four hours.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2798\" data-end=\"3163\">Meanwhile, a flight arriving from <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jeddah<\/span><\/span>, SV 700, remained airborne for nearly two hours due to low visibility before being cleared to land safely in Karachi. Additionally, two flights arriving from <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Doha<\/span><\/span> and Jeddah later resumed their onward operations after weather conditions improved.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3165\" data-end=\"3554\">The schedule further indicated that five flights operating between Karachi and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Islamabad<\/span><\/span> were delayed by one to three hours. Similarly, six flights between Karachi and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Lahore<\/span><\/span> experienced delays of up to three hours. Two flights from Karachi to Jeddah and Lahore were cancelled altogether due to prolonged disruption.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3556\" data-end=\"3835\">Airport authorities confirmed that flight operations have now returned to normal following an improvement in weather conditions. Passengers have been advised to check the latest flight updates with their respective airlines before heading to the airport to avoid inconvenience.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"3837\" data-end=\"3855\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight operations at Karachi airport were restored after a four-hour suspension caused by dense fog, although the disruption led to significant delays and cancellations of both domestic and international flights. According to the flight schedule, a total of 36 arrivals and departures were affected due to poor visibility, resulting in inconvenience and extended waiting times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[7575,6473,9973,6815,4943],"class_list":["post-18860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-flight-delays","tag-flight-operations","tag-fog-disruption","tag-karachi-airport","tag-pakistan-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18862,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18860\/revisions\/18862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}