Flights between Hong Kong and Tokyo were resumed from Sunday evening after half-day suspension due to heavy snow in Japan.

The delayed flights were resumed and some of the canceled ones reopened, a Hong Kong Airport Authority official told Xinhua in a telephone interview.

Altogether 16 flights between Hong Kong and Tokyo were delayed and three canceled on Sunday, when heavy snow accumulated on the runways of the Narita Airport in Tokyo.

Three flights, one from Tokyo and two leaving Hong Kong, have either arrived or took off till 8:00 pm in the evening.

However, eight flights from and five to Tokyo are still being delayed, with one from and two to Japan are canceled, according to the Hong Kong airport authority.

More than 1,000 passengers stranded at the Hong Kong airport have checked in local hotels, waiting for their flights to be reopened, reported local radio station RTHK.

The airport authority asked passengers to follow up weather situations in their destination cities and check with their airlines before going to the airport.

(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2006)