{"id":474475,"date":"2026-06-12T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474475\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:09:10","slug":"flights-cancelled-as-fog-disrupts-travel-at-auckland-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474475\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights cancelled as fog disrupts travel at Auckland Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4OD5Y7I_copyright_image_110837.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Fog at Auckland Airport has delayed travellers.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFog at Auckland Airport. (File pic)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Jessie Chiang\n<\/p>\n<p>Flights were disrupted at Auckland Airport on Saturday due to fog.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions have been in place since 4.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-four flights have been either cancelled or delayed so far.<\/p>\n<p>Ten regional flights have been cancelled, and 21 regional flights have been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>For main trunk services three flights to Queenstown has been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>International flights have not been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Airport is urging passengers to check the website or app for the latest flight arrival and departure information.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption is occurring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/emergencies_local\/598067\/stranded-travellers-return-to-wellington-airport-after-fire-disruption\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Wellington Airport tries to get back to normal services<\/a> after the terminal was evacuated last night due to a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Several flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency is investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fog at Auckland Airport. (File pic) Photo: RNZ \/ Jessie Chiang Flights were disrupted at Auckland Airport on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-474475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}