European airlines cancel hundreds of flights as snow chaos worsens
Global News
Authorities in the Netherlands told people to plan to stay at home if at all possible on Wednesday, with a fresh blizzard expected to arrive overnight.
More flights will be canceled, trains will run late and roads will be blocked by snow across Europe in coming days as a cold snap is expected to worsen, bringing even more heavy snowfall after several days of travel disruption.
Authorities in the Netherlands told people to plan to stay at home if at all possible on Wednesday, with a fresh blizzard expected to arrive overnight.
French Transportation Minister Philippe Tabarot said on Tuesday that airlines had already been ordered to cancel at least 40% of flights at Paris’s main Charles de Gaulle airport the following morning, and a quarter of flights at smaller Orly.
Public transportation in the Paris region will probably also be disrupted by the snow, he added.
At Amsterdam’s Schiphol, where more than 400 flights were canceled on Tuesday, authorities told travelers whose flights had been called off to stay away from the airport to prevent overcrowding.
“We haven’t experienced such extreme weather conditions in years,” Dutch airline KLM’s spokesperson Anoesjka Aspeslagh said, as winter weather crippled traffic at one of Europe’s main transit hubs for a fifth day.
The airline later announced it will cancel an additional 600 flights on Wednesday at Schiphol airport, where KLM is the main operator.
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