How to arrange flights when Chengdu Airport encounters thunderstorm weather?

Shuangliu Airport was hit by the first thunderstorm in summer: more than 10,000 passengers were stranded, and the flight was expected to be delayed for 4 hours.

17 In the early morning of May 1, a thunderstorm hit Chengdu, which prevented citizens from going out in the morning. It was learned from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport that the airport began to encounter thunderstorm at 3: 26 am and lasted until 7: 00 this morning. This is also the first thunderstorm weather that the airport has encountered since the summer, which has caused a large number of flights to fail to take off and land on time, which has affected passengers' on-time travel and forced them to stay at the airport waiting for the weather to improve. To this end, the airport issued a severe weather warning to all resident units last night, which is the first time that Chengdu Airport issued a severe weather warning information this year.

It is understood that the thunderstorm weather lasted for three and a half hours this morning. During this period, lightning frequently appeared over the airport and the runway airspace, and the thunderstorm weather on the west runway was more serious. According to relevant regulations, the airport closed the west runway. The closing time was 2: 00 to 6: 00 this morning, and it was closed for 4 hours. During this period, the flight take-off and landing of the west runway was stopped, and at this time, the east runway could only meet the flight landing standard, which was very inefficient. At the beginning of the thunderstorm this morning, all flights at Chengdu Airport were executed yesterday. Fortunately, there are not many flights that were not executed yesterday at this time, which has little impact on yesterday's flights, and there are not many stranded passengers. According to statistics, * * * caused four inbound flights to be diverted to Chongqing Airport yesterday, and 13 flight was cancelled.

It is reported that Chengdu Airport plans to arrange 955 flights in and out of Hong Kong today. Due to the extreme weather this morning, flights on the east runway of Chengdu Airport resumed at 5: 0010 this morning. The first flight leaving Hong Kong was VJ53 17 of Guangdong Airlines, but the thunderstorm continued. Flights departing from the east runway need to be widened to avoid thunderstorm areas. This extreme weather has a far greater impact on today's flight than yesterday's flight. As of 8: 30, 80 flights have been delayed today. In the next time, there will be more flight delays, which will affect the travel of more than 65438+100000 passengers and make them unable to reach their destinations on time. Judging from the flight operation, only 12 took off from Hong Kong from 06: 00 to 07: 00 this morning, which was less than 30 flights less than 40 flights in normal weather. This shows that the flight operation efficiency is very low. The affected outbound flights mainly go to major domestic cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Changsha, Wuhan, Yinchuan, Lanzhou, Kunming, Harbin, Shenyang, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Zhengzhou, followed by some international and regional flights; Ports mainly come from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Kunming, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Guiyang, Nanning, Xining and other major cities.

For the passengers who canceled or postponed their flights to today, the carrier airlines arranged meals nearby in time, and the passengers were in a stable mood and understood that they could not arrive on time due to the weather. Last night was the first thunderstorm weather in Chengdu Airport since the summer of this year, which means that Chengdu Airport has officially entered the summer thunderstorm season. The airport reminds passengers to pay attention to meteorological information and weather changes when traveling by plane, so as not to affect their travel. According to the forecast of the meteorological department of civil aviation, it will be mainly cloudy during the day, and there will be no extreme weather such as thunderstorms, which is very beneficial to the resumption of flight operation and passenger evacuation. The continuous influence of extreme weather this morning disrupted the two-day flight plan of Chengdu Airport. Today's flight at Chengdu Airport is expected to be delayed by 4 hours, and all stranded passengers are expected to be evacuated and transported at 8 pm.

In order to minimize the losses caused by extreme weather, Chengdu Airport quickly launched an emergency warning mechanism for abnormal flights. After the thunderstorm, many emergency and remedial measures were taken to increase the flight density of airspace as much as possible on the premise of ensuring safety. At the same time, Chengdu Airport and the airport security units quickly do a good job in ensuring the service of stranded passengers, inform the passengers of flight delay information in a timely manner through radio and other forms, actively do a good job in explaining and appeasing stranded passengers, and arrange rest places for stranded passengers in time. If you need to inquire about flight dynamic information, please call: (028)85205555 or contact your airline.

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