At least one flight due to land at Dunedin Airport has been turned back to Christchurch, after a thunderstorm caused the runway lights to fail. An airport spokeswoman confirmed one flight had been turned back on Sunday afternoon and technicians were working to fix the lights. One flight had been able to land in that time, and another flight was waiting to land as a result of weather conditions around the airport. Photo: ODT filesMeanwhile, the Spark outage caused by yesterday's storm has affected flights, with Air New Zealand forced to cancel services from Queenstown to Auckland. An Air New Zealand spokesperson said the cancelled flights were due to the Spark network outage in Queenstown.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 08, 2019 03:11 UTC