If there was ever a good test for St. John’s Airport’s CAT-3 fog-fighting technology, the past week-and-a-half has been it.

The advanced landing system, installed a few years ago, has lived up to its billing.

In pre-pandemic times, it would not be unusual to have a thousand flights a year scrubbed because of visibility issues—but with the new system, they’re down to only a handful.

The CEO of St. John’s International, Peter Avery, says it has been a gamechanger as flights can now land in almost any weather.

He says planes equipped with the CAT-3 technology can land in almost zero visibility.