Over 400 flights will be canceled at Pudong and Hongqiao international
airports for Sunday as typhoon Ampil is likely to make landfall in
Shanghai on Sunday morning.
Some 300 flights are expected to be
canceled at Pudong International Airport on Sunday, while another 160
will be canceled at the Hongqiao airport, the Shanghai Airport Authority
said.
Tokyo(Narita) flights
Passengers
are advised to keep an eye on flight information on Sunday to avoid
being stranded at the airports, the authority said.
Air China has
announced to cancel 41 domestic and international flights at the Pudong
and Hongqiao airports for Sunday. They include outbound flights from
Pudong to Osaka, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Melbourne, according to the
nation's flagship carrier.
Shanghai-based China Eastern, Shanghai
Airlines and China United Airlines have cancelled 165 domestic flights
which were scheduled to take off or land at the city's two airports for
Saturday night and Sunday.
The local airlines have also cancelled
40 flights at other airports in east China such as Ningbo in
neighboring Zhejiang Province, Yantai in Shandong and the Zhoushan
archipelago where the typhoon is likely to pass through before hitting
Shanghai. The airlines said they would continue to adjust these flights
according to the movement of the typhoon.The local Spring and Juneyao
airlines also announced to cancel about 20 domestic flights at the
Pudong and Hongqiao airports for Sunday.
Over 30 flights which
are scheduled to land at Hongqiao airport and those berthed on the apron
overnight on Saturday have been canceled, and 29 such flights have been
canceled at Pudong airport, according to the Shanghai Airport
Authority.
Strong winds will cause giant lift forces when blowing
around the wings of aircraft berthed on aprons. Under such forces,
aircraft may move and bump into each other, the airport authority said.
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