Frankfurt Airport cancelled 120 flights due to heavy snow

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 03 Mar 2006, 18:37

The busiest airport in continental Europe had to cancel more than 120 flights today. Even more flights were delayed by up to 1 hour.

Reason was the heavy snowfall, causing a 20cm thick snow-layer in the morning.

Airport spokesman Klaus Busch had no idea how many passengers were affected.

Source: The Associated Press

MX727 · Post by **MX727** » 03 Mar 2006, 20:39

I don't want to imagine how it is going to affect the entire European network

I believe Lufthansa is going to be the most affected

Hope everything gets back to normal soon.
Regards,
JAHC

burner737 · Post by **burner737** » 03 Mar 2006, 21:34

Any flights from FRA diverted to BRU ?

Regards Tim

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 03 Mar 2006, 21:49

burner737 wrote:Any flights from FRA diverted to BRU ?

FRA is a little bit far from BRU to divert flights, don't you agree?

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 03 Mar 2006, 23:24

There are now 400 flights cancelled!!

MX727 · Post by **MX727** » 04 Mar 2006, 00:12

8O Man, 400 flights! That must be a hell of a snowfall!! How often does this happen? Sorry for the question, but where I live it almost never snows, although they close the airport for a couple of hours 2 or 3 times a year due to bad weather, mostly because of foggy conditions.
Regards,
JAHC

burner737 · Post by **burner737** » 04 Mar 2006, 00:47

Jense wrote:
burner737 wrote:Any flights from FRA diverted to BRU ?
FRA is a little bit far from BRU to divert flights, don't you agree?

Yes ... But sometimes strange things happen ... I once got diverted to CDG and I think CDG is further then FRA ...

Regards Tim

elnombre · Post by **elnombre** » 04 Mar 2006, 04:40

The busiest airport in continental Europe

Not sure what criteria are being used to measure "busiest" but if it is aircraft movements it is Paris Charles de Gaulle which has the edge.Just.
Your pedantically

El

EBAW_flyer · Post by **EBAW_flyer** » 04 Mar 2006, 23:09

actually almost all the FRA flights out of BRU were cancelled (except thos in early in the morning). And today (04/03) same thing in Munich due to snow (actually munich is closed, Frankfurt wasn't but had a lack of de-icing fluid

).

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 04 Mar 2006, 23:21

burner737 wrote:
Jense wrote:
burner737 wrote:Any flights from FRA diverted to BRU ?
FRA is a little bit far from BRU to divert flights, don't you agree?
Yes ... But sometimes strange things happen ... I once got diverted to CDG and I think CDG is further then FRA ...

Guess not...: http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=BRU- ... &MAP-STYLE