With the Met department predicting 120 hours of dense fog till mid-February, Delhi Airport is bracing itself for winter woes by providing additional bays to function in low visibility, flight updates on social networking sites and better facilities for passengers in case of disruptions.

“It is primarily dense fog that can affect the airline operations and as per our predictions there will be around 120 hours of dense fog this year,” Mr R.K. Jenamani, Director of the Meteorological office at the IGI Airport, told reporters today.

DIAL officials said that they had made extensive preparations to deal with the fog.

Apart from sharing fog-related details and status of flights on their Web sites, they would post information of social networking sites such as Google and Twitter.

Four additional help desks are also provided for assistance and information to passengers, officials said.

The seating capacity at Terminal 3 has also been increased from 12,000 to 13,150 official said. The seating capacity at the Domestic airport has been increased to 2700 from the earlier 2200, DIAL officials said and added that DIAL had trained its staff for the fog challenge.

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