More than 100 Japan flights cancelled due to heavy snow
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 767-300, on a charter flight from the Chinese city of Wuhan arranged by Japan's government to evacuate its citizens, landed at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Wednesday (Jan 29, 2020). ANTARA PHOTO/REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/foc. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
TOKYO, Dec 26, 2021, Reuters. More than 100 domestic flights in Japan were grounded on Sunday due to heavy snow in the northern and western parts of the country, Japan’s two biggest airlines said, WTVB reported.
ANA Holdings had halted 77 flights as of 1 p.m. (0400 GMT), affecting about 5,100 passengers, said Yutaka Kitahara, the company’s operations director.
“As the weather situation in northeastern Japan remains unstable, there could be more cancellations to come,” Kitahara said.
Japan Airlines Co had cancelled 35 flights as of 10 a.m. (0100 GMT), affecting 1,810 passengers, a representative with the airline’s operations division said.
Worldwide, thousands of flights have been cancelled over the Christmas weekend because of the rapid spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.
Japan, which tightened border controls to counter the threat from Omicron, has reported only about a dozen cases of community spread of the new variant and 231 total Omicron infections, including overseas arrivals, according to the health ministry.
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