Taipei Times
Date: Mar. 10, 2019
By: Wang Shu-fen and Evelyn Kao 

TAIPEI (CNA) — Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport’s south runway reopened on March 10 after a pothole was discovered the previous day, causing delays to 121 flights.

The flights were delayed by an average of 52 minutes, with a Singapore-bound flight operated by Scoot, Singapore Airlines Group’s budget airline, suffering the longest delay of nine hours, according to Taoyuan International Airport Corp. (TIAC).

The Scoot flight departed from Japan’s Hokkaido and was scheduled to arrive in Singapore via Taiwan.

The flight should have landed at Taoyuan Airport at 9:20 p.m. Saturday and departed at 10:20 p.m. that same day but was forced to divert to Kaohsiung Airport after the discovery of the pothole.
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