Hole in runway causes Edinburgh Airport chaos
24.04.08
Passengers at Edinburgh Airport suffered long delays last night after a pothole was discovered in the main runway. The runway was was closed to incoming flights for almost three hours while engineers fixed the fault and planes were diverted onto the crosswind runway.
The hole, at the Newbridge end of the runway, was discovered at around 14:00 yesterday. Repair work was only completed by 17:15, which meant eleven flights bound for Edinburgh were diverted to Glasgow and Prestwick airports, while the majority of flights in and out of the airport faced delays.
The runway is undergoing a £16 million, eight-month resurfacing programme which is conducted at nights. It was only started two weeks ago.
An Edinburgh Airport spokesman earlier said: ‘The main runway is having resurfacing work done and combined with bad weather there was a hole.'
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