Fog causes flight delays at Southampton Airport
16.10.07
Passengers flying to and from Southampton Airport were hit with delays yesterday after heavy fog left planes grounded. It was the second time in less than a week that flights to and from the airport had to be delayed or cancelled because of fog.
Only a handful of early morning flights - to Paris, Manchester, Edinburgh and Brussels - managed to take off, then all flights were halted shortly after 07:00 as the weather got worse. Flights from Guernsey, Jersey, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Newcastle, Dublin, Amsterdam and Glasgow were all abandoned. Other flights were diverted to Bournemouth, Bristol and even as far away as Manchester.
Operations resumed shortly after 09:30, but by then flights to Newcastle, Dublin, Leeds Bradford, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Jersey and Edinburgh all had to be called off, with other flights suffering an average delay of two hours.
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