Domestic flights into Sydney Airport delayed due to storms

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A major weather system across eastern Australia is causing chaos for people travelling. There are major delays and cancellations of flights at Sydney Airport which has been impacted by heavy fog.

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00:00It's absolutely not a good day to be travelling. You just look outside, the cloud cover, the

00:06fog has caused significant problems for flights coming in and out of Sydney this morning.

00:11And it appears the knock-on effect is really only getting worse. So we're hoping, you know,

00:15the cloud cover would have lifted by now, but you just look outside and it is still

00:19very thick. So the vast majority of domestic flights coming into Sydney airport have either

00:24been delayed or many cancelled this morning. We've also seen international flights significantly

00:30impacted, some being diverted as a result of the cloud cover and the storm activity.

00:35So people can be expecting several hour-long delays. One of our colleagues was actually

00:40sitting on the tarmac at Melbourne airport for a few hours and was told that, you know,

00:45they weren't going to be taking off any time soon. He sent us some videos of the boards

00:49and they are just full of delays and cancellations. We've heard from Air Services Australia who

00:55say they're hoping to get flight schedules back on track as soon as possible, but looking

01:01outside it looks like that might be quite a long day.

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