Germany: Flight cancellations and delays at the country’s airports due to bad weather

Cancellations and delays in hundreds of flights in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart are caused by the bad weather that affects both central and western Europe. Airports in Germany face problems and the largest are found in Frankfurt as at least 120 take-offs and landings from the 1,090 originally scheduled for today have already been cancelled, he told the German news agency dpa a representative of the airport management company, Fraport. CORVERSE Landing corridors had to be cleared because visibility was poor, while major delays caused the aircraft to be defreezed due to weather conditions. At Munich airport the problems are more limited, with a few delays in carrying out the flight program, as at Stuttgart, where services ask passengers to come to the airport quite earlier. Problems due to bad weather are also encountered in the operation of railways, particularly in the Frankfurt area, while the authorities are paying particular attention to the roads, where snow or ice may exist. In Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia some 120 traffic accidents have been recorded since last night, but no serious injuries.