Penza, 2 March 2016. PenzaNews. The morning flight from Moscow to Penza, originally scheduled for departure at 7.05 of Wednesday, March 2, took off only on 7.47 due to weather, the Penza airport director Yuri Oskolkov told PenzaNews.

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“It departed at 7.47, landed in Penza at 8.47 instead of 8.15,” he clarified.

According to him, the delay also affected the departure of the plane back to Moscow from Penza, as originally it was scheduled to take off at 9.05.

At the moment, the airport is planning its work on the actual weather, Yuri Oskolkov said.

“Accepting [flights], releasing – currently, our meteorological minimum allows that. The weather is tought, but we are accepting flights,” he elaborated.