Dozens of flights at Moscow's Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports have been delayed due to smog caused by wildfires, a spokesman for the Russian air transport agency Rosaviatsiya said on Friday.
Visibility has been reduced to just 350-400 meters at Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports, Sergei Izvolsky said.
As of 12:00 p.m. Moscow time [08:00 GMT], 25 departing flights have been delayed. Another 28 flights have delayed their arrival times, including five that canceled their departure for Moscow. Twenty-three flights were rerouted to airports in St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov and Kazan, he said.
Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow's north is operating normally, the airport's press service said.
MOSCOW, August 6 (RIA Novosti)
