Update (3:30pm): Flights restarted to be operated at the Chisinau International Airport at 10am on February 1, with some of the planes taking off with delay. According to the online schedule available on the airport’s website, four flights arranged for today were cancelled – two to Istanbul (9:40am, 1:35pm), one to Frankfurt (2pm) and another one to Warsaw (2pm).
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At least 27 flights were cancelled on January 31 and last night at the Chisinau International Airport owing to the dense fog. The flights scheduled for this morning haven’t been yet announced. The situation is the same in the case of landing.
Asked by IPN to provide details, Rodica Rusu, head of the press service of Avia Invest company that manages the Chisinau International Airport, said only the planes to Barcelona (5:50am), Tel Aviv and Milan (6:10am), Moscow (7am and 10am), Brussels (8:10am) and Istanbul (1:35pm) took off from the airport on January 31.
No plane could land at the airport last night and this morning, except for the plane that came from Milan yesterday at 11:50am. No flight has been operated from Chisinau since 1:35pm and it is not known when flights will be announced as the dense fog persists.
President of Moldova Igor Dodon, who is expected to return from Moscow, was to give a press briefing at the airport today, but this was cancelled owing to the disrupted flight schedules.
