Archive · 6 Oct 2026
Bad Weather Diverts Varanasi-Bound Flights to Lucknow
Bad weather stopped three flights from landing in Varanasi on Monday.
They flew instead to Lucknow.
Two were operated by IndiGo and one by Air India Express.
After waiting, all three continued to Varanasi.
A separate flydubai flight was diverted to Lucknow on Saturday, October 3.
It had been flying from Dubai to Pokhara.
The plane landed safely and later flew to Kathmandu.
The airport said it was not an emergency, and passengers were given refreshments.
Three flights bound for Varanasi were diverted to Lucknow on Monday because of adverse weather at Varanasi.
The diverted flights were two IndiGo services and one Air India Express service.
All three flights later left Lucknow and continued to Varanasi.
A flydubai flight from Dubai to Pokhara was diverted to Lucknow on Saturday, October 3, because of bad weather at Pokhara.
The flydubai aircraft landed safely, then departed for Kathmandu; the airport said the landing was normal, not an emergency.
- Who
- Three Varanasi-bound flights operated by IndiGo and Air India Express, and a separate flydubai flight from Dubai to Pokhara.
- What
- The flights were diverted to Lucknow because of adverse weather; all later departed for their destinations or, in flydubai's case, Kathmandu.
- When
- The three Varanasi-bound flights were diverted on Monday; the flydubai flight was diverted on Saturday, October 3.
- Where
- The diversions were to Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow.
- Why
- Adverse weather at the destination airports.
- Monday diversions
- Three Varanasi-bound flights: two IndiGo and one Air India Express.
- IndiGo flight 6E6596
- Arrived in Lucknow at 18:20 and departed for Varanasi at 19:47.
- IndiGo flight 6E501
- Arrived in Lucknow at 18:42 and departed for Varanasi at 20:06.
- Air India Express flight IX1540
- Arrived in Lucknow at 18:27 and departed for Varanasi at 19:21.
- flydubai flight
- Flight FZ 1165 was diverted on Saturday, October 3, and landed in Lucknow at 18:53.
- flydubai onward journey
- It departed for Kathmandu at 20:08 with 149 passengers and six crew members.
- Airport statement
- The flydubai aircraft made a normal, safe landing; the diversion was not an emergency.