Air New Zealand says fog at Wellington Airport isn’t affecting its flights this morning but there’s still a backlog to clear from yesterday.
Fog set in Sunday afternoon, causing travel disruption in the capital with about a dozen local and international flights in and out of Wellington cancelled and delayed.
Wellington Airport says the airport is open and operating as usual and it’s up to the airlines to decide if they’ll fly.
A meteorologist with the forecaster MetService, Kyle Lee says a mass of humid air tracked north over the country, formed sea fog over the cooler water of Cook Strait, and was then funnelled into the harbour.
He expects it will clear by mid-morning.
Yesterday Air New Zealand said its smaller, turboprop regional flights were the only ones being affected, but further cancellations included larger planes travelling to the main centres, and to Australia.
Several of the regional turboprop flights were forced to return to their point of departure.
The airline said today that it has put on additional turboprop flights today to accommodate customers.
Source - rnz
