{"id":581278,"date":"2026-08-26T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:30:10","slug":"more-than-40-regional-flights-cancelled-delayed-at-auckland-airport-as-fog-cloaks-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581278\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 regional flights cancelled, delayed at Auckland Airport as fog cloaks city"},"content":{"rendered":"

They advised passengers to check whether their flights are affected via Auckland Airport\u2019s website or app.<\/p>\n

It is the third time in recent weeks that Auckland Airport<\/a> has been beset by fog restrictions, causing disruption to dozens of flights.<\/p>\n

\"FlightFlight restrictions are in place for Auckland Airport this morning as fog blankets the city. Photo \/ Cameron Pitney<\/p>\n

On the morning of August 10<\/a>, hazy conditions led to the cancellation of eight domestic regional flights.<\/p>\n

Six domestic and five international flights also faced delays before restrictions lifted at 8.21am.<\/p>\n

Four days later, restrictions were introduced for the second time in a week<\/a> as thick fog blanketed the airport.<\/p>\n

At least 17 domestic flights were delayed and seven were cancelled, including one main trunk flight to Dunedin.<\/p>\n

Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They advised passengers to check whether their flights are affected via Auckland Airport\u2019s website or app. It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24041,2681,806,1975,51,1558,138,20703,2199,224238,10669,6562,86284,305,130,1304,111,139,69,5914,131,1961],"class_list":["post-581278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-24041","tag-airport","tag-as","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-business","tag-cancelled","tag-city","tag-cloaks","tag-delayed","tag-flights","tag-fog","tag-have","tag-more","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-regional","tag-than","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581278","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=581278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}