As it turned out, no airplane protest banners flew over MetLife Stadium before Sunday’s Giants game against the Chargers.

That’s because weather interfered with the operations of High Exposure Aerial Advertising, said Dave Dempsey, who owns the Woodbine-based company that flies the planes.

Two Giants protest banners were scheduled to fly Sunday before Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart makes his first NFL start. Tentative plans for a third never materialized.

So what happened?

Here’s what Dempsey told NJ Advance Media on Sunday morning: The two planes that were scheduled to fly Giants-related banners over MetLife Stadium got stuck in State College, Pennsylvania, where they worked the Oregon-Penn State game, because of poor weather.

Dempsey had two backup planes ready to go in

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