The runway at Chambéry Savoie-Mont-Blanc airport has been closed since Saturday, December 30 at the end of the afternoon. No planes can take off or land because of thick fog. Nearly 2,000 people found themselves stuck.
Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc airport has been closed since Saturday, December 30 in the middle of the afternoon. Thick fog prevents any takeoff and landing on the airport tarmac, indicates the Savoie prefecture. In total, nearly 2,000 people find themselves stuck at the airport while many tourists had to pass through Chambéry to reach or leave the ski resorts.
“During the holidays, Saturday is a very busy day because there are arrivals and departures to the ski resorts. These are only planes transiting from the United Kingdom,” adds Ludovic Trautmann, director of the office of the prefect of Savoy.
“Several solutions have been put in place”specifies the prefecture, “we have already organized passenger transfers via shuttles to Lyon and Grenoble airports.”
An emergency accommodation point should be set up during the evening, “in the town of Aix-les-bains,” adds the prefecture, to accommodate families with children in good conditions.”
The Savoie prefecture specifies that “the fog patch will not lift this evening and the weather forecast is too uncertain for tomorrow, Sunday December 31.”