Frankfurt-am-Main, the main international airport in Germany, canceled 600 flights from 1300. "Timetable fully lost. But the passengers are taking it with understanding," - said airport spokesman in Frankfurt am Main. Some passengers waiting for their flight on Friday, RIA Novosti news agency. Canceled, primarily inner-and intra-flights. Employees airfield services do not have time to scour the runways of snow, in addition, airports in the destination, refused to accept aircraft.
- Moscow airport snow did not stop
In Britain, temperatures in some areas dropped to 20 degrees below zero, and the continuing snowfall. After the break, Gatwick airports in London and Edinburgh and Southampton airports reopened with limited capability. At the Paris airport Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) 3000 passengers were forced to spend the night in a room of the terminal.
Snowfall has also violated and rail links. Trains throughout Germany came very late or canceled. In addition, due to high demand hard to buy tickets. Disrupted rail traffic in the central areas of the UK, as well as in northern France - in Normandy. Due to difficult weather conditions canceled some trains Eurostar, which means laid under the English Channel tunnel link London with Paris and Brussels. Ticket sales for Eurostar suspended until December 24.
In France, the utilities are advised drivers not to travel due to slippery road conditions. On some highways is 20-cm layer of snow. Due to snowfall in the northeast of the country's 5,000 homes were without electricity. In Paris, due to weather conditions had canceled a concert Lady Gaga.
10 cm of snow turned the British airport in a refugee camp
Heathrow airport terminals strewn with aluminum blankets for refugees - are sleeping beneath the passengers who had found the storm, the newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Until the airport can handle only 16 flights a day instead of the usual 650, admitted a representative of Heathrow.
Particularly angry with the airport management 48-year-old John Gerrels, builder of the Woodford. He and his wife would take his ailing son's leukemia is six years in Finland for Christmas. "Everything was in order, we have already boarded the plane, as here, we were told that we should wait for de-icing machines. While we were waiting for her, the snow began," - told Gerrels.
Then he had five and a half hours waiting for the gangway to leave the plane. "I own a small construction company. If I turned this to their customers, no one would hire me even hammer a nail!" - Outraged by the passenger.
Gerrels even more indignant when he heard from the travelers and the Finns in Helsinki weather conditions much harder - there is no frost -3, and -25 degrees, and snow cover - not 10 inches and almost meter. Despite this, the airport worked there without interruption.
At the same time at Heathrow some passengers have to wait for departure of up to five days. London Mayor Boris Johnson called the head of the management company BAA Limited Colin Matthews, and demanded an answer. "I stressed the economic importance of Heathrow. I also expressed the hope that they will do their utmost to resume the flights," - he said.
In turn, BAA announced that this year has spent 6 million pounds more than in the past, the purchase of equipment to remove snow and ice. But it is blamed that on revenue of one billion pounds per year, this is clearly not enough. Runways is cleaned from the snow, but the parking of aircraft still covered with ice, making the movement of aircraft unsafe.
Cancellations and flight delays were reported in airports Stansted, Luton, Exeter, London City, as well as in Bristol, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham. Better at airport Gatwick, which, however, BAA sold - it could serve 300 flights out of 700 planned.
The staff of airlines argue with terminal services on whose work - cover aircraft de-icing fluid. Say, the head of British Airways Willie Walsh quarreled on the subject with the head of BAA Matthews. According to one of the engineers, by the time Deicing machine finishes its work, the plane again manages to cover it with ice.
Forecasters still do not promise no thaw, no cessation of snowfall. In some places the air temperature in Britain could reach a record -26 C. The relief at the earliest on Wednesday.
"British airports have been very poor. Our neighbors across the strait do not suffer as we have when it's cold," - said, referring to the French, David Reynolds, head of security of the British Association for the pilots of civil aviation.
Moscow airports operate normally
Moscow air hub airports, despite the continuing snowfall, working in normal mode, the delays on departures and departures for spare no airfields, told Interfax in a Federal Air Transport Agency.
At airports, the service is treated the runways and aircraft, the band cleared of snow. Snow depth was in Moscow on the morning of Monday 17 cm, the website "Meteonovosti.
According to the representative Rosaviation now there are delays on the flight to London, Volgograd, Voronezh and Anadyr, but they are associated with adverse weather conditions at your destination.
Aeroflot states delay their flights due to the closure of airports due to meteorological conditions in Paris and London. As reported by ITAR-Tass news service "Aeroflot" in connection with the termination of the airport of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to 15:00 MSK reschedule departure flight number 259 and "251 from Moscow to the French capital - they are detained until the 16:00 and 16:30 MSK, respectively.
As for London, in connection with restrictions on arrivals and departures at the airport of Heathrow luffing next flight № 241 and № 582, as well as flight № 245, № 243 and № 239, intended for export passengers previously canceled flights. "For the removal of passengers rather than aircraft of A-320 aircraft are scheduled for more capacity: A-330 and Boeing-767", - the press-service.
Also in Aeroflot reported that Russia's national airline is waiting for the decision of the operational headquarters of aviation authorities of Great Britain, which will decide the future work of the airports. In the airline has also been established round the clock staff, supervise the distribution of passengers in hotels and nutrition.
"In this situation, all the passengers who do not wish to continue the flight can take the ticket without penalty, regardless of the date of the return ticket", - assured the interlocutor of agency, stressing that "the return cost of transportation is carried out only at the place of purchase of the ticket."
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