Reasons for flight delays

The weather is the main reason for the flight delay. The simple word "weather reason" actually contains many situations: the weather conditions at the departure airport are not suitable for take-off; The weather conditions at the destination airport are not suitable for landing; The meteorological conditions of flight routes are not suitable for flying over and so on.

2. Traffic control

With the rapid development of China's civil aviation, the number of flights has increased dramatically, but the corresponding ground facilities, navigation equipment and service guarantees have developed slowly and the route structure is unreasonable, which cannot adapt to the rapid development of the current civil aviation industry.

3. Passenger reasons

There are many reasons for flight delays, some of which are irresistible natural factors. According to statistics, flight delays caused by passengers account for 3% of abnormal flights, which is almost the same as the number of delays caused by aircraft failures.

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Flight delay compensation measures:

First, there are two criteria for airlines to delay flights for their own reasons. One is to delay the flight for more than 4 hours and less than 8 hours; The other is a delay of more than 8 hours. In both cases, airlines have to make economic compensation for passengers;

Two, the way of compensation can be cash, ticket discount cash and return mileage cash;

Three, in the case of flight delays, in order not to cause new delays, economic compensation is generally not carried out at the airport site, airlines can use registration, letters and other means;

Four, the airport should stop passengers from taking "strike", "fighter" and other ways to affect the normal flight of subsequent flights after the flight delay.

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