yesterday.

Tuesday night's 10 p.m. arrival from New York finally touched down seven-and-a-half hours late -- at 5.30 a.m. yesterday.

The delays followed an emergency landing on Tuesday, when a London-to-Miami Boeing 767 with 128 passengers diverted to Bermuda after flying on just one engine.

And an American Airlines flight from New York was a staggering 17 hours late on Monday afternoon, touching down at 2.30 when it should have arrived at 10.05 the night before.

AA's John Hotard, speaking from the Texas head office, said the delay was caused after a fault in the nose cone.

He added: "We've certainly had a bad run in Bermuda. We can only apologise for the delays which have been caused.''