Many domestic flights in China have been canceled or delayed because of summer storms as of Tuesday evening, according to a smartphone application and information from airline companies.
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Twenty-four flights were canceled at Beijing Capital Internet Airport, and another 160 were affected by 6 pm on Tuesday, according to Very Zhun, a real-time flight tracking application.
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World Civil Aviation Resource Net reported that about 600 flights were affected in Beijing on Tuesday, and that delays and cancellations were also seen at other major airports across the country in recent days.
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On Monday, almost 200 flights at Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport were canceled, and about 120 flights were delayed more than two hours, according to information from the Internet.
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Suggestions that planned military flight drills were behind the delays and cancellations spread online on Tuesday, but employees on duty at the Beijing airport denied that.Â