{"id":458550,"date":"2021-12-27T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458550"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:33:38","slug":"more-than-100-japan-flights-cancelled-due-to-heavy-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/more-than-100-japan-flights-cancelled-due-to-heavy-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 Japan flights cancelled due to heavy snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s two biggest airlines said.<\/p>\n<p>ANA Holdings had halted 77 flights as of 1 p.m. (0400 GMT), affecting about 5,100 passengers, said Yutaka Kitahara, the company&#8217;s operations director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the weather situation in northeastern Japan remains unstable, there could be more cancellations to come,&#8221; Kitahara said. <\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines Co had cancelled 35 flights as of 10 a.m. (0100 GMT), affecting 1,810 passengers, a representative with the airline&#8217;s operations division said. <\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, thousands of flights have been cancelled over the Christmas weekend because of the rapid spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s two biggest airlines said. ANA Holdings had halted 77 flights as of 1 p.m. (0400 GMT), affecting about 5,100 passengers, said Yutaka Kitahara, the company&#8217;s operations director. &#8220;As the weather situation in northeastern Japan remains unstable, there could be more cancellations to come,&#8221; 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&#8217;s operations division said. Worldwide, thousands of flights have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}