Mass Delay in 17 Airports, 5 Shut Down Runways
By Rejoice Xu, China Aviation Daily | Jan. 04, 2018
According to big data from Variflight, among the 13,284 planned flight (shared flights excluded), there has been 4088 abnormal flights, accounting for 30.8% and 7425 punctual flights with an on-time rate of 55.9% by 6:50 p.m., January 4, 2018.
There are 17 airports suffering massive delay nationwide, including Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airports, Luoyang Beijiao Airport, Nanjing Lukou Airport, Nanyang Jiangying Airport, Xiangyang Liuji Airport, which shut down runways because of snow and icing, as well as Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport, Liuzhou Bailian Airport and so on. What's even worse, Jining Qufu Airport and Fuyang Xiguang Airport has been closed due to the bad weather until now and Hefei Xinqiao Airport has just reopened.