The thunderstorm forced the Calcutta air traffic control to divert five city-bound flights. Online check-in was disrupted and the flight information display boards went blank because of the snag,” an airport official said. “Some of the flights that take off from Calcutta in the evening operate on other routes, too. IndiGo’s flights to Calcutta from Bangkok and Chennai were diverted to Bhubaneswar. “Flights were disrupted for 50 minutes because of the storm,” the airport official said.

Source: The Telegraph May 13, 2019 22:18 UTC