India, May 2 -- Heavy rain coupled with thunderstorms in Delhi affected several flights at Indira Gandhi International airport (IGIA) on Friday morning.

According to Flightradar24, a live flight tracking website, Delhi airport saw an average delay of 50 minutes in departures and 35 minutes in arrivals.

"The adverse weather conditions in city head led to delays in both arriving and departing flights. Moreover, three flights had to be diverted", an airport official said.

"A flight had to be diverted to Ahmedabad and two of them had to be diverted to Jaipur", another flight official said.

"Due to the weather, a SpiceJet flight from Leh that was scheduled to arrive around 8am, was cancelled. IndiGo too had to cancel its Srinagar and Leh b...