Chengdu Shuangliu Airport closed the east runway in fog for more than two hours. What happened?

Today is the 30th anniversary and the first day of the Spring Festival holiday. Since the beginning of Spring Festival travel rush, Chengdu Airport has been in a busy state of operation, with an average of 944 flights taking off and landing every day and more than 67,000 passengers leaving Hong Kong in a single day. Today, it suddenly dropped to 863 flights, returning to the level of Spring Festival travel rush the day before. The number of flights dropped by 69 flights compared with yesterday, which is the day when the airport started in Spring Festival travel rush this year. It is estimated that about 58,000 passengers will leave Hong Kong today, a decrease of more than 65,438+200,000 compared with 70,093 yesterday. This is also the smallest number of passengers leaving Hong Kong in a single day since Spring Festival travel rush.

Details:

In the early morning of this morning, the foggy weather struck again, which led to the closure of the east runway of Chengdu Airport from 05: 20 to 08: 00 in the morning, because the visibility was too low to meet the flight take-off and landing standards.

The pause and shutdown time is 2 hours and 40 minutes. When the first EU2235 flight to Guangzhou took off at 08: 00, the east runway officially resumed operation. During this period, Chengdu airport can only run the west runway alone, and there is fog to the south of the west runway, so the visibility is poor, and the flight has to change direction and take off from north to south, which greatly reduces the flight release speed. By 9 o'clock in the morning, there are 70 outbound flights.

The flight was delayed and could not be released on time. About 7000 passengers were affected and could not fly to their destination on time. Fortunately, the fog did not last long, and stranded passengers boarded the plane and left Hong Kong one after another, but some flights were difficult to follow up.

It is guaranteed to take off on time, and passengers' travel will also be affected.

At present, tourists mainly go home and travel abroad, but from tomorrow, the number of returnees will drop sharply, and tourists are mainly tourists.

In addition, the airport also reminded that since Spring Festival travel rush, many passengers in Chengdu Airport have lost their wallets, certificates, clothes and computers in the waiting area, boarding gate and flights. If passengers lose something at the airport, please make a reservation in the morning.

05:00-23:00 to claim. On the other hand, please don't carry oversized and overweight luggage through the security check. You need to check it when you check in to avoid missing the plane.