Repair work on the runway Landings cancelled at Cologne/Bonn Airport
COLOGNE/BONN · For around three hours on Thursday afternoon, no planes were allowed to land at Cologne/Bonn Airport. The airport said the reason was that repairs needed to be made on the runway surface.
Damage on the runway was the cause of stalled operations on Thursday afternoon at Cologne/Bonn Airport. For three hours, no aircraft were allowed to land. “On the large runway, damages were detected in the morning and they needed to be repaired urgently,” said airport spokesperson Walter Römer. There was damage to the part of the runway where the planes touch down and this was noticed in a routine morning check, he explained.
Runways are checked every six hours, according to the airport spokesperson. During the inspection on Thursday morning, workers determined that the four millimeter thick protective layer of the runway had become loose on parts of the asphalt-like covering.
Seven flights were cancelled while work on the runway took place and six flights were diverted to other airports. In the evening, another nine flights were expected to be cancelled. Included were two flights to and from Zurich and Hamburg, and many flights were delayed. At 5pm, the runway was opened up again.
Orig. text: Dennis Sennekamp/dpa
Translation: ckloep
