New Delhi: Flight operations at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport are slowly returning to normal after a major disruption caused by a technical glitch in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system.

The problem, which affected the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), led to widespread delays and cancellations of flights since Thursday evening.

According to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the issue was detected on November 6 and immediately taken up for rectification. The AMSS, which handles the exchange of flight plan messages between controllers and pilots, had malfunctioned, forcing air traffic controllers to process flight plans manually. This slowed down operations and caused delays across several airports in the country.

More than 800 flights were affected on Frida

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