Passengers can get free meals and accommodation and transfers if their flights are delayed during the Olympics and Paralympics, according to yesterday's Beijing Times.

The special measures were adopted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on Wednesday after recent thunderstorms delayed a number of flights and left passengers stranded at airports.

The CAAC did not specify which airport had experienced serious delays, but an industry insider said that typhoons that hit coastal cities in southern China in the past week had grounded flights at local airports and slightly affected airports including Beijing.