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Stormy weather disrupts air traffic
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OVER 50 flights were canceled and about 190 more were delayed at Shanghai’s Hongqiao and Pudong airports yesterday due to stormy weather, the Shanghai Airport Authority said.
The Air Traffic Management Bureau issued a yellow alert for both airports from 8am through 11am yesterday because of heavy rainfall accompanied by lightning and thunder hitting the city. It later extended the alert through 11pm.
It had predicted that the takeoff and landing capacity of Shanghai’s two airports would be reduced by 20 percent. The situation became worse in the afternoon when the airports’ takeoff and landing capacities were reduced by 30 percent, the bureau said.
Thirty flights were cancelled and 115 more were delayed at Pudong airport after 6pm.
Over 20 domestic and international flights were delayed by over four hours and over 70 were delayed by over two hours, the airport authority said.
Sixteen incoming flights at Pudong were diverted to Hongqiao and other nearby airports by 6pm.
China Southern Airlines issued a flight delay advisory in the afternoon and cancelled additional outbound flights.
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