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Rescue for travelers at Hanover airport: From Wednesday morning, it is possible to take back airplanes and land. The first check-in counters should open at 3 am, said the airport at night. Flight operations can be resumed from 6 hours. "We are happy that this is starting again," said a spokesman for the airport.
Flight operations were interrupted on Tuesday evening because during the summer, the hot plates of the Northern Railway had been lifted. The south runway was out of service due to renovations. According to a spokesman, 41 sorties and 44 landings were affected by the closure.
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Travelers were invited by telephone to drive home. On the site of the airport was Tuesday night: "Please do not currently travel to the airport." First and foremost, many families wanted to leave Hanover for their summer holidays.
"There was no chaos here," the spokesman said. Hanover is not Hamburg not a major transit airport. Several hundred people were waiting in front of the company's counters Tuesday night to find out about the situation. The largest airport in Niedersachsen counted in the first half of the year according to its own data 2.76 million pbadengers
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Pbadengers waiting in Hanover [19659012] According to the German Meteorological Service (DWD) were Tuesday in Barsinghausen -Hohenbostel in the region of Hanover measured 35.6 degrees – ranked second of the hottest places in the nation. "The absolute maximum of the day was measured at 35.9 degrees in Lingen, Lower Saxony," said DWD meteorologist Florian Engelmann.
Cooling is not in sight. "On the contrary, especially in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, southern Lower Saxony and parts of Saxony-Anhalt, things will get even hotter," Engelmann said. There, temperatures could reach 37 degrees Wednesday. "It stays hot until at least Saturday."
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