Cyclone Murasu: 12 Flights Cancelled at Vijayawada, Five at Visakhapatnam

Five IndiGo flights had been cancelled at Visakhapatnam airport by late morning, while several other services were delayed or diverted as severe cyclonic storm Murasu approached the Andhra Pradesh coast.

Vijayawada cancellations

Twelve IndiGo and Air India Express flight services to and from Vijayawada were cancelled on Monday (November 2, 2026).

Krishna district, where Vijayawada airport is located, is on red alert.

The India Meteorological Department said that at 8.30 a.m., Murasu lay about 160 km east-southeast of Nellore and was moving west-northwest at 22 kmph.

The storm is expected to cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Narsapur, south of Ongole, between 11.30 p.m. on Monday and 4 a.m. on Tuesday.

Winds could gust up to 120 kmph.

IndiGo cancelled its Vijayawada services connected with Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Kurnool, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai for the day.

According to airport authorities, the cancelled IndiGo services were 6E 7730/6E 7304, operating on the Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada-Chennai route; 6E 7215/6E 7708, operating between Bengaluru, Vijayawada and Tirupati; and 6E 6263/6E 6327, operating between Hyderabad and Vijayawada.

The list also included 6E 7707/6E 7216 on the Tirupati-Vijayawada-Bengaluru route, 6E 7305 between Chennai, Vijayawada and Kurnool, and 6E 7223/6E 7224 between Bengaluru and Vijayawada.

Other cancelled IndiGo services were 6E 2580/6E 2581 between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, 6E 7306 between Kurnool, Vijayawada and Chennai, 6E 5158/6E 5127 between Mumbai and Vijayawada, and 6E 7247/6E 7246 between Bengaluru and Vijayawada.

Air India Express cancelled two services: IX 2413/2414 on the Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada-Visakhapatnam route and IX 2405/2406 between Hyderabad and Vijayawada.

Delays at Visakhapatnam

The five cancelled IndiGo flights at Visakhapatnam were the services to and from Hyderabad, 6E 714 and 6E 716; the services to and from Tirupati, 6E 7701 and 6E 7702; and the flight to Vijayawada, 6E 7730.

The morning IndiGo flights from Mumbai and Chennai landed more than three hours late.

Their return flights were shown as diverted on the airport’s flight information page and were expected to leave at 1 p.m. instead of before 8 a.m.

The flight to Hyderabad, 6E 6645, was also delayed, while most other services, including flights to Delhi, Bengaluru and Abu Dhabi, were operating.

Source: The Hindu