Skift Take
Winter weather and cold climates routinely hurt the on-time and cancellation records at airports in Europe and Northeast U.S., but they’re almost in the clear with spring weather a few weeks away.
Frankfurt airport suspended flights following heavy overnight snowfalls and Eurostar Group Ltd. ceased Channel Tunnel train services for the day as blizzards hit air, rail and road travel across swathes of northern Europe.
About 300 flights to and from Europe’s third-busiest airport were canceled before owner Fraport AG stopped operations. Eurostar halted passenger-express services through the Channel Tunnel until tomorrow, citing “severe weather conditions overnight in northern France and Belgium.”
French authorities preemptively grounded one-quarter of flights at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, the second-busiest in the region, and local trains were also hit, with SNCF asking people to avoid travel to Paris. Rail services were delayed to London’s Gatwick airport, close to which dozens of motorists slept in their cars after as much as six inches of snow fell.
“A high-pressure area north of Britain is pulling in the cold from Russia and that’s colliding with a large area of low pressure over northern
