Istanbul Airport announced suspension of reception of flights

Istanbul Airport will stop receiving passenger flights until 11 am local time on January 26. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the airline.

“We received a notice, according to which the official closure of the airport was extended to 11 in the morning of Istanbul,” said the source of TASS. It is also known that the airport will take only priority flights and flights that have earned earlier on the spare airfields because of the snowfall in the capital.

Earlier it was reported that at the airport of Istanbul-New about 370 clients of the Victory airline, which are in the sterile zone, the second day await departure. Thus, on January 24, the airfield ground services for more than seven hours could not release passengers from the aircraft, as the technique on summer tires stuck in the snowdrifts. “Hotels for them were found, but from the building of the airport of people cannot please: roads to the airport are blocked,” added to the press service.

/Media reports.