Germany: Bad weather has caused chaos at airports – Hundreds of flights cancelled and delayed

Huge problems for hundreds of flights to and from Germany are being caused by atrocious upwind affecting cardinal and western Europe, and the upwind is expected to easiness by this afternoon.

Already, cancellations and delays person been reported astatine the airports of Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart.

The astir superior problems are recovered astatine Frankfurt airport, astatine slightest 120 takeoffs and landings retired of the 1,090 primitively scheduled for contiguous person already cancelled, a spokesperson for the airport’s absorption company, Fraport, told German quality bureau dpa. The runways had to beryllium cleared due to the fact that visibility was poor, portion agelong delays were being caused by the de-icing process owed to upwind conditions.

At Monachu airdrome the problems are much limited, with a fewer delays successful the formation schedule, arsenic successful Stuttgart, wherever officials are asking passengers to get astatine the airdrome good successful advance.

Problems owed to the atrocious upwind are besides being experienced successful the cognition of railways, particularly successful the Frankfurt area, and authorities are advising drivers to beryllium peculiarly cautious connected roads wherever determination whitethorn beryllium snowfall oregon ice. In Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia, astir 120 roadworthy accidents person been recorded since past night, but nary superior injuries.