Travel Information - Thread: "30 Flights in Guangzhou Made Emergency Landing in Other Places, Female Passenger Fainted Due to Oxygen Lack"

By the evening of the day before yesterday, thunderstorms that lasted for more than 2 hours above Guangzhou Baiyun Airport caused some outbound flights to be delayed or canceled. As a result, nearly 4000 passengers were affected. Affected flights gradually recovered by the morning of yesterday.

After the thunderstorm ceased, Baiyun Airport re-opened and outbound flights gradually set off, with alternate-landing flights returning to Guangzhou.

As of the time this reporter went to press yesterday, all stranded flights had gradually departed. The last flight to depart was CZ371Y, which took off at 15:00.

30 Flights Were Forced To Land In Other Places

From around 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the evening of the previous day, there was thunderstorm weather above Baiyun Airport. When the thunderstorm occurred, it was just during the peak period of outbound flights from Baiyun Airport. Therefore, over 60 outbound flights from Guangzhou were delayed, affecting nearly 4000 passengers. Among them, China Southern Airlines cancelled eight flights departing from Guangzhou, including Flight 6302 to Wenzhou, Flights 3380 and 3388 to Changsha, Flight 3392 to Zhengzhou, Flight 3595 to Shanghai, Flight 371 to Hanoi, Flight 3898 to Shantou, and Flight 6778 to Haikou. Thirty-nine flights departing from Guangzhou were forced to delay.