{"id":730861,"date":"2026-08-07T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:09","slug":"late-night-flights-suspended-at-bristol-airport-due-to-runway-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730861\/","title":{"rendered":"Late night flights suspended at Bristol Airport due to runway defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Broadbent said his partner and daughter were due to fly to Newcastle at about 19:00 but were stuck at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She said suddenly all flights were cancelled and all passengers were moved to one place down at ground level, and it was absolutely packed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then alarms started going off, people were screaming and passengers were trying to break out, there was no staff,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was ever so upset, I could hear people screaming on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Bristol Airport spokesperson said: &#8220;Due to a defect on the runway, we have temporarily suspended operations as a precaution, in order to inspect and repair the section affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We apologise for any inconvenience. Safety is always our number one priority,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Customers should refer to their airlines with any flight queries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Broadbent said his partner and daughter were due to fly to Newcastle at about 19:00 but were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}