{"id":33185,"date":"2018-08-17T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=33185"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T10:07:06","slug":"airlines-cancel-flights-after-naia-runway-closure-runway-expected-to-reopen-at-noontime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/08\/17\/airlines-cancel-flights-after-naia-runway-closure-runway-expected-to-reopen-at-noontime\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Cancel Flights after NAIA Runway Shutdown; Closure Extends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flights from several airlines going through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have been cancelled today, August 17<\/strong>, after\u00a0a Chinese aircraft lands on the airport’s runway,\u00a0due to torrential rainfall brought by the monsoon.<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE Philstar\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Among airlines who have announced their flight cancellations are Philippine Airlines<\/strong> with their Manila to Cebu, Cebu to Manila flights (PR 1845, PR 1846, PR 453, PR 454), Saudia Airlines<\/strong> with their Manila to Jeddah flight (SV 871), Hong Kong Airlines<\/strong> with Hong Kong to Manila flight (HX 781), Etihad Airways<\/strong> with Manila to Abu Dhabi (EY 421), Cathay Pacific<\/strong> flights from\u00a0Manila to Hong Kong (CX 900, CX 906, CX 908, CX 912), China Airlines\u00a0<\/strong>with Kaohsiung to Manila and Manila to Kaohsiung flights (CI 711 and CI 712),\u00a0and\u00a0Tiger Airways\u00a0<\/strong>flights from Manila to Hong Kong and Hong Kong to Manila.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Pacific Airlines<\/strong> flights from San Francisco to Manila (PR 115) and Vancouver to Manila (PR 117) were\u00a0diverted to Mactan Cebu International Airport.<\/p>\n

Cebu Pacific<\/strong>, after expressing their concern for the closure of the airport’s main runway, listed down their cancelled flights from Manila to Hong Kong <\/strong>(5J 272 and\u00a05J 110), Manila to Bangkok<\/strong> (5J 929), and Manila to Narita<\/strong> (5J 5054), as well as 2 cancelled Manila-bound flights from Singapore<\/strong> (5J 804) and Incheon<\/strong> (5J 187).<\/p>\n

According to Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), the\u00a0Xiamen Air flight MF 8667, which landed on the runway due to the downpour, had 157 passengers and 8 crews who were evacuated via emergency chutes and were\u00a0ushered safely to NAIA Terminal 1, and later, to a hotel.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Aircraft Accident Bureau had already reached out to the Xiamen Airlines as the aircraft accident underwent probing by perusing the aircraft’s body which hard landed along the runway. CAAP\u00a0also proceeded to clearing debris from the runway for the safety of the succeeding planes which will land after NAIA runway’s expected reopening at 5 in the morning on Saturday, August 18\u2013 an extension from the previous announcement of 12 noon and 7 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Sources:\u00a0GMA Network<\/a>,\u00a0ABS-CBN News<\/a>,\u00a0ABS-CBN on Cebu Pacific Flights<\/a>,\u00a0ABS-CBN on List of Flights,\u00a0CNN Philippines
\n<\/a><\/em><\/span>Featured Image grabbed from ABS-CBN News\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flights from several airlines going through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have been cancelled today after a Chinese aircraft lands on the airport’s runway, due to torrential rainfall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6670,2450,6859,6861,1490,683,6860],"class_list":["post-33185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-cathay-pacific","tag-cebu-pacific","tag-etihad-airways","tag-hong-kong-airlines","tag-ninoy-aquino-international-airport","tag-philippine-airlines","tag-saudia-airlines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/PAL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33208,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185\/revisions\/33208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}