{"id":731203,"date":"2026-08-08T06:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:16:22","slug":"flights-still-suspended-at-bristol-airport-due-to-runway-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731203\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights still suspended at Bristol Airport due to runway defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone caught up in the disruption should contact their airline, they added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No further official information about the nature of the defect has been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of people spoke to the BBC on Friday evening about their experience at the airport &#8211; among them Paul Smith, who was due to fly to Glasgow for his son&#8217;s 20th birthday but had to cancel his trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The communication, advice and support for passengers has been really poor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were no announcements on the tannoy system for over an hour, he said, which meant EasyJet reps in the departure lounge were the only source of information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;ve heard is that there&#8217;s a hole in the runway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Are you waiting for a flight to or from Bristol Airport? Please use the form below to get in touch and tell us your experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone caught up in the disruption should contact their airline, they added. No further official information about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-731203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731203","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=731203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}