Heavy snowfall leads to postponed flights at Kutaisi Airport

Two flights at the international airport in Kutaisi - Georgia’s second largest city - have been postponed after heavy snow hit the area.

The weather affected Warsaw-Kutaisi and Kutaisi-Warsaw flights, both of which were scheduled early this morning.

The flight from Warsaw was expected to land at Kutaisi International Airport after midnight and the same plane was then scheduled to leave for Warsaw at 6.45 am.

The Airport Administration said the postponed flights were rescheduled for early morning on January 5.

They also said snowfall had stopped this afternoon so no other flights would be affected.

Heavy snowfall during the past three days has caused problems on roads too throughout Georgia. Drivers faced restrictions on several main roads especially in mountainous areas. Most of those restrictions have already been removed.

Heavy snow also damaged several houses and broke off trees across the Black Sea coast in western Georgia. It also left a couple of southlands of families with no electricity supply in western Georgia’s Samegrelo and Adjara regions.

In Lagodekhi Municipality in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia, rescuers have been searching for three hunters who got lost in snow for since January 3. The searching operation is underway, using helicopters to find the hunters in the forest. On December 28 a group of four men went hunting but only one of them managed to get to safety after a heavy snow began.

Unusually low air temperatures caused problems in Tbilisi, Rustavi and other central Georgian cities too. Water pipes were frozen and several families left with no water supply.

Official weather forecasts said the weather would get slightly better from today and frosts would gradually weaken for the coming days.