'Havoc' Continues In Europe As Snow Snarls Travel

Europe reels from Christmas travel nightmare
LONDON — The world's busiest International Airport told infuriated passengers not to expect full service until Thursday, five days after a five-inch snowstorm turned hundreds of thousands of holiday plans into a nightmare of canceled flights and painful nights on terminal floors. Travelers' anger boiled over into politics as Britain's Prime Minister offered to put Troops on snow-clearing duty. Europe's top transport official threatened tougher Regulation of airports unable to cope wi...

UK snow disruption - live updates
Britain is not new to cold winters. In 1995 Humberside dropped to -21C, As a child 40 years ago, the snow was 2 feet deep everywhere. Fuel froze in the trains in Inverness when it dipped to -34 C.Why are we so surprised when airports close and roads are impassable. It will probably happen next year too. Would heated runways work, but then everyone still has to get to the airport on the snow covered roads. We heat football pictches but still cancel matches. Anyone booking a flight or organizing ...

Europe airport chaos slammed
Thousands of angry travellers forced to sleep in airports and train stations across Europe faced more misery as fresh Snowfalls paralysed transport systems just days before Christmas. London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, was operating at only about a third of its normal schedule on Tuesday during a fourth day of disruption, while Frankfurt halted all flights after a new blanketing of snow. For a third day, queues stretched for hours outside the London terminal for the Eurostar train link b...

Winter Freeze Continues Across Europe
(NewsCore) - Thousands of travelers were forced to sleep in airports and queue at train stations across Europe as fresh snowfalls paralyzed transport networks days before Christmas. Heathrow Airport in London, Europe's busiest airport, was operating only a third of its normal schedule Tuesday, and Frankfurt airport halted all flights. More than 1,000 travelers spent the night at Frankfurt airport on Monday, with people sleeping on camp beds, AFP reported. Meanwhile, French authorities allowed Pa...

Snow Joke: The High Cost of Europe's Big Freeze
Forget dreams of a White Christmas. On Tuesday, millions of stranded travelers in Europe faced another day of being trapped in a Noël nightmare, as severe weather continued to disrupt air, rail, and road transportation — and threatened to do so through the holiday weekend. The chaos first broke out late last week, when heavy Snowfall brought movement in many European cities to a crawl. By Dec. 21, the Continent was still in slow mode, as early morning flurries forced Frankfurt's air...

Thousands still stranded after snow
Stranded air travellers wait for flights at Heathrow. Thousands are still stuck across Britain after chaos caused by snow and ice. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Heathrow Airport opened both runways tonight after five days of disruption, bringing some respite to frustrated travellers after another day of travel misery which left 130,000 airline passengers stranded while severe problems blighted the road and rail networks. David Cameron expressed frustration at the Heathrow chaos as it emerged tha...

weather chaos could lead to more regulation
BRUSSELS - Europe's top transportation official says the failure to keep flights operating in cold and snowy conditions is unacceptable and could lead to tighter Regulation by the EU. Transportation Commissioner Siim Kallas says new airport regulations due to be published before the summer could include new requirements on "minimal services" airports will have to be able to provide during severe weather. Paisley Dodds and Raphael G. Satter in London, Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels and Ge...

Travelling hopefully: Your snow stories
Heavy Snowfall and icy conditions are causing Travel Chaos in parts of Europe. Germany's main air hub, Frankfurt, was forced to cancel almost 300 flights and Heathrow Airport in the UK said it would continue to run only 30% of flights until 0600 GMT on Wednesday. BBC News website readers describe their experiences of the heavy snow and travel disruptions. Snow vehicles clearing snow at Frankfurt airport, where flights were cancelled. Video by Kristian Schuhmacher I've been working j...

Air travel chaos remains for many
Thousands of Christmas travellers have spent another night in airport terminals in the hope their flights will finally take off this morning. Fresh snowfalls in the southeast of England have brought more disruption to Gatwick Airport, which hopes to re-open this morning. The first flights should also be taking off from Heathrow, but the airport is warning that cancellations and delays will continue right up to Christmas Day. Andy Moore reports. How are airports kept open in cold weather? Pla...

Metro Detroit in for an inch of snow
The National Weather Service says to expect about an inch of snow in some parts of metro Detroit today. A storm headed toward Michigan on Friday is expected to mostly miss metro Detroit. In Europe, snowstorms during the last three days have had a ripple effect on air traffic across the world, with a barely functioning London Heathrow Airport at the Epicenter. Delta's Flight 5 from London to Detroit today was called off after several days of cancellatio...

European weather chaos spawns outrage, questions
Passengers queue as they wait to check-in for their flights outside Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport in London, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Major delays and cancellations persisted Tuesday at European airports including London's Heathrow, and on the Eurostar train link, leaving thousands stranded across Europe as Christmas approached. Predicted Snowfall at Heathrow did not materialize overnight, allowing cleanup crews to intensify their work, but more than half the flights at Europe's busiest intern B...

Heavy Snow Hits Air Travel, Roads in Europe
© AP Photo/Alastair Grant A Pedestrian walks a dog during a snow-fall in Central London, Saturday, Dec., 18, 2010. Heavy snow on Sunday shut down European airport runways, forced fast trains to slow down and left cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays. London's Heathrow Airport stopped accepting arrivals. Frankfurt airport canceled around 40 percent of flights. Paris' Charles de Gaulle cut Air Traffic by a quart...

Outcry over grit rations as roads turn to ice rinks
Britain was bracing itself for another night of plummeting temperatures and the prospect of a further six inches of snow as councils were forced to begin Rationing salt supplies. The continuing Deep Freeze comes in the wake of a warning that the highway authorities 'may find it challenging' to meet road salt requirements for the rest of the winter and that we may run out altogether. Forecasters said two bands of snow would sweep across southern Britain from Wales into the south east of England d...

Christmas chaos as snow snarls European travel
Thousands of angry travellers struggled Monday to get home for Christmas as snow and ice caused fresh chaos at European airports and paralysed roads and railways across the frozen continent. International hubs London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels tried to clear a backlog of passengers forced to sleep on terminal floors for up to three days as they sought to reach their destinations by the end of the week. Authorities in Frankfurt sent in clowns in a bid to cheer up travellers, but fu...

Christmas canceled for 1M air travelers
LONDON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Christmas was canceled for nearly a million air travelers as London Heathrow Airport said flights would be delayed or canceled through at least this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people may not find seats until the New Year, Heathrow operator BAA Ltd. acknowledged, as snow, ice and frigid temperatures also turned road and rail travel into chaos. The severe weather grounded flights and disrupted travel throughout Northern Europe, with the French army removing stranded...

Snows Delay European Air, Rail Travel for Fourth Day
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Air Travel disruptions rippled across Europe for a fourth day in the countdown to Christmas as Frankfurt airport was closed this morning after heavy Snowfall. Fraport AG’s Frankfurt airport, Europe’s third busiest, reopened two runways after shutting all three earlier this morning for snow clearance, spokesman Juergen Harrer said in a telephone interview. Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it re-routed Frankfurt-bound long-haul jets to Munich and deployed additional wi...

Snow and ice expected in the UK until Boxing Day
Forecasters say freezing weather conditions are likely to remain until after Christmas, as a passenger tells Channel 4 News there is 'solidarity' in the airport queues. Heathrow has asked passengers not to travel to the airport unless their airline has confirmed they will be able to fly, as it was still operating a reduced schedule. Thousands of people were stranded at the airport yesterday, and BAA said it was unable to accept any more people at the "extremely congested" Terminals 1 and 3. The...

Christmas getaway misery as snow stymies Europe
Heavy snow disrupted the Christmas holiday getaway in Europe, forcing the continent's biggest airports to close and thousands of stranded passengers to spend the night on terminal floors. In London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels, flights were cancelled and airports warned of backlogs spilling well into this week, with snow and ice frustrating travel plans across Europe on the last weekend before December 25. Hundreds of passengers had to sleep in terminals after becoming trapped in no...

Christmas getaway misery as snow stymies Europe
Heavy snow disrupted the Christmas holiday getaway in Europe, forcing the continent's biggest airports to close and thousands of stranded passengers to spend the night on terminal floors. In London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels, flights were cancelled and airports warned of backlogs spilling well into this week, with snow and ice frustrating travel plans across Europe on the last weekend before December 25. Hundreds of passengers had to sleep in terminals after becoming trapped in no...

Cold weather snarls European travel
Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters · Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 Berlin, Dec 20 — Heavy snow and frigid temperatures caused further disruption across Northern Europe on Monday — stranding travellers, snarling traffic and shutting schools. More than 1,000 flights at Germany’s main airports in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin were cancelled and many more delayed after up to 40 centimetres of fresh snow blanketed the country. Some 500 stranded passengers slept on cots at Frankfurt airport. Airli...

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Fox: UK terror plot aimed British landmarks, shopping Published December 21, 2010 London - A large-scale terror attack was aimed at British landmarks and public spaces, security officials said Tuesday as more details emerged and police searched the homes of 12 British suspects being held for questioning. The men — whose ages range from 17 to 28 — were arrested Monday in the largest Counterterrorism Raid in nearly two years. At least five were of Bangladeshi origin. Lord Carlile, the gove

UK terror plot aimed British landmarks, shopping
LONDON - A large-scale terror attack was aimed at British landmarks and public spaces, security officials said Tuesday as more details emerged and police searched the homes of 12 British suspects being held for questioning. The men — whose ages range from 17 to 28 — were arrested Monday in the largest Counterterrorism Raid in nearly two years. At least five were of Bangladeshi origin. Lord Carlile, the government's independent Watchdog for terror Legislation, said Tuesday the a...

More flight delays in Britain, Frankfurt
London — Major delays and cancellations persisted Tuesday at European airports including London’s Heathrow, and on the Eurostar train link, leaving thousands stranded across Europe as Christmas approached. Predicted Snowfall at Heathrow did not materialize overnight, allowing cleanup crews to intensify their work, but more than half the flights at Europe’s busiest international hub were expected to be canceled. Travelers were told not to come to the airport unless they checked...

UK snow: rail passengers endure travel misery as Heathrow fiasco enters fifth day
Rail passengers bore the brunt of today's Christmas travel misery as all services on one of the country's busiest lines were cancelled – in addition to new problems at airports....

Weather chaos continues to hit U.K. airports
LONDON - Snow and freezing temperatures continued to ground flights to and from Britain on Tuesday, with travellers hoping to get away for Christmas likely to suffer delays and cancellations for several more days. British Airways said it expected to make a “significant number of cancellations””to its shorthaul services from London’s Heathrow Airport, which will again operate with just one of its two runways on Tuesday. “Severe weather continues to cause signif...