Relief for travelers at Hanover Airport: From Wednesday morning, planes can take off and land there again. The first check-in counters should open at 3 o'clock, the airport said at night. The flight operations can be resumed from 6 clock. "We are glad that it starts again," said an airport spokesman.
The flight operations had been interrupted on Tuesday evening, because had raised in the great summer heat plates of the northern railway. The southern runway was out of service due to renovation work. According to a spokesman, the closure affected 41 departures and 44 landings.
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Damaged runway
Tourists were asked by announcement to go home. On the website of the airport was on Tuesday evening: "Please do NOT currently travel to the airport." Especially many families wanted to start their summer vacation from Hannover.
"There was no mess here," the spokesman said. Hannover is unlike Hamburg not a major transit airport. Several hundred people were waiting in front of the airline's counters on Tuesday evening to find out about the situation. Lower Saxony's largest airport in the first half of the year, according to own data 2.76 million passengers.
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Waiting passengers in Hannover
According to the German Weather Service (DWD) was measured on Tuesday in Barsinghausen-Hohenbostel in the Hannover region 35.6 degrees - second place of the nation's hottest places. "The absolute maximum of the day was measured at 35.9 degrees in Lingen in Lower Saxony," said meteorologist Florian Engelmann of the DWD.
Cooling is not in sight. "On the contrary, especially in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, the south of Lower Saxony and parts of Saxony-Anhalt, things will get even hotter," said Engelmann. There, temperatures could rise to 37 degrees on Wednesday. "It stays hot until at least Saturday."