Airlines Reporting Delays Across The Globe
ANN REALTIME REPORTING
12.22.06 08:32 EST: This week's blizzard that hammered the
western US has moved off to the east, but its effects are still
being felt across the country. Weather stations along the storm's
path are reporting an average of two feet of snow.
ANN reported yesterday on the
massive flight cancellations at Denver International and other
regional airports. Denver International had planned to dig itself
out and open late yesterday evening, but continuing snowfall
throughout the night dashed those optimistic hopes. Airport
managers are now hoping to begin limited operations sometime this
afternoon.
Flight cancellations in western airports are affecting schedules
country-wide with airports in Chicago and New York City reporting
two and half hour delays and at least 45 minutes at Atlanta's
Hartsfield. Airport managers warn the delays will only worsen today
as the full effects of yesterdays flight cancellations and
continuing bad weather in the eastern US begin to be felt.
Those of you planning to get yourselves from here to there in
the Eastern US using your personal aircraft would be wise to
carefully check the weather as yesterday's blizzard has moved off
to the east of the Mississippi bringing rain, clouds and wind all
the way from the gulf coast to Canada.
Although we are an aviation news organization we feel it
important to also point out travel on the roads is just as
treacherous today as travel by air -- especially in the west where
many roads are still buried.
And it's not just in the US where Mother Nature is having a
little Holiday fun. Travelers at London' Heathrow are into their
fourth straight day of flight cancellations as thick fog blankets
the city of London.
Airlines there are cancelling most domestic short-haul flights
to the Continent and delaying many long-haul overseas flights.
British Airways announced 170 flight cancellations for today
alone.
Domestic UK flights are first on the cancellation list because
it's not just Heathrow in the soup, Gatwick, Norwich, Southampton
and Coventry are all predicting continuing delays and cancellations
for weather.
All in all, if you're travelling this Holiday Season you're not
a happy camper (literally in some cases). But if you're sitting at
home in front of a fire roasting chestnuts, you can be sure the
weather outside is most definitely frightful!
FMI: www.nws.noaa.gov