Due to urgent repairs at Scotland’s busiest airport, the holidays of thousands of passengers had to be interrupted.
Due to unplanned runway repairs, Edinburgh Airport had to divert or delay over 100 flights last year.
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Figures published by the United Kingdom The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that 16 unplanned closures were due to surface defects at the airport.
In total, the disruption is said to have lasted almost nine hours.
In addition to the runway repairs, other incidents at the airport resulted in a total of 36 passenger flights and two cargo flights being diverted.
It was also announced that at least 60 flights were delayed.
The data was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request to The Scotsman.
The airport admitted work The “complete replacement” of the runway would not take place until the end of next year, but acknowledged that it was “nearing the end of its life.”
Graham Simpson of the Scottish Conservatives, transport Spokesman said: “Any delay causes disruption.
“These figures should be of concern to airport management and they should do everything in their power to push for improvements to the runway.”
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Edinburgh Airport said: “The runway is nearing the end of its life, with a full replacement Operation planned for next year.
“We always prioritize Security and maintain a regular maintenance schedule. We will also continue to carry out work where and when it is required.
“Teams are working hard to minimize impacts. During these 12 months, the runway was available and open 99.9 percent of the time. These suspensions represented 0.1 percent of the year.”
The airport added that no flights had to be diverted and that nearly half of the closures lasted 20 minutes or less.
