茨城空港 2日から全便運休に 新型コロナ感染拡大で

All flights will be suspended from 2nd at Ibaraki Airport

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, international flights are suspended on all routes at Ibaraki Airport, but domestic routes to New Chitose, Fukuoka, and Naha will be suspended from January, and the remaining routes to Kobe. The last flight of the day will be suspended until the February 14th.

There is only one flight to Kobe departing at 8:30 am a day, and when more than 40 people, including office workers on business trips and those who have returned to their parents' homes in the prefecture, board the last flight, airline employees And the staff at the airport waved off.

In addition, since the terminal building at the airport is closed except for the counters of airlines that handle suspensions, souvenir shops have been busy cleaning up the products lined up and putting covers on them.

Nobuaki Suzuki, Airport Countermeasures Supervisor of the Prefectural Sales Strategy Department, said, "I think it is unavoidable to suspend operations in view of the infection situation. When the operation resumes, we would like to work to make it available to a large number of people again."

All flights at Ibaraki Airport have been suspended since May, when a state of emergency was declared last year and the number of passengers dropped significantly.

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210201/k10012843231000.html