British Airways Flight Status? These canicule there is no such things as the Airlines struggles to accumulate schedules while Britain Freezes in the coldest December on Record.
Millions of Britons were adverse biking anarchy today as snow and ice larboard motorways and airports bankrupt and alternation casework disrupted.
Gatwick Airport has annulled all flights until 5pm today, with added problems in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. British Airways annulled all their flights out of Heathrow.
Overnight blizzards and coast temperatures askance a huge block of the country’s road, air and abuse networks on the busiest weekend for biking and arcade afore Christmas.
As the mercury plunged, hundreds of drivers were affected to absorb the night in their cars on the M6 afterwards a lorry jackknifed at midnight.
The North West was hit with deluges of up to 10in of snow while genitalia of the south were additionally blanketed overnight, with blizzards accepted in genitalia of the South East and Midlands today.
All British Airways flights abandonment from Heathrow airport were annulled until at atomic 5pm as arctic planes and runways acquired a astringent excess of flights. A backer from the airline said: “The acclimate at Heathrow now is absolutely appalling.”
“We knew that astringent acclimate altitude were expected, so rather than allurement cartage to biking bottomward from Scotland, for example, aloof to accept their flight cancelled, we anticipate it’s more good to acquaint all our barter that flights are cancelled.
“We charge to accord our barter some certainty.”
She said the airline regretted inconveniencing passengers, but insisted it was the actual decision.
“This costs British Airways a huge bulk of money, so this is not a accommodation we booty lightly,” she said. “There’s a excess from bygone and that has an appulse on today’s customers.
“The capital affair is we don’t appetite barter axis up today to get abandoned and not be able to get out by car or by plane.
She said the airline is accouterment bodies with aliment and drinks, and putting bodies up in rooms.