About 400 flights cancelled over weekend after Noul triggers city’s first No 8 and No 9 signals of 2026
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenKate ChanandEdith LinPublished: 1:49pm, 27 Jul 2026Updated: 1:51pm, 27 Jul 2026Some air passengers remained stranded at Hong Kong International Airport on Monday following Typhoon Noul’s departure from the city, with authorities expecting normal operations to resume by the morning.
According to the airport website, as of 12.45pm, 12 departing flights initially scheduled for Sunday had been rescheduled to Monday, including three that were due to depart between 5pm and 11.15pm.
The website also showed a total of eight departure and eight arrival flights scheduled for Monday were cancelled. They included seven departure flights initially slated for take-off between midnight and 1.05am.
On Monday morning, the South China Morning Post observed at the airport that while passengers formed orderly queues at check-in counters, dozens of stranded travellers waited overnight on benches for airlines to clear backlogs from delayed flights.
Typhoon Noul triggered the city’s first No 8 and No 9 storm signals of the year over the weekend, and led to cancellations of about 400 flights. Although all typhoon warnings were dropped on Sunday evening, some travellers said their flights were pushed back to Monday evening.
Among them was Xing Tai from Beijing, who said her Saturday flight home had been cancelled, leaving her stranded at the airport for a full day.
