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Heathrow, All BA flights departing from London Heathrow will be cancelled between 1000 and 1700 UK time, others seem to be flying.
Gatwick, all BA European and Domestic flights from London Gatwick between 1000 and 1659 UK time will be cancelled.
Gatwick - Gatwick's runway remains open, expecting significant snowfall for much of today (Saturday 18 December) and into the early evening.
Gatwick - easyJet has cancelled flights from 0600-1000 today and British Airways has cancelled all short haul flights between 10.00 and 16.00.
Firenze and Pisa closed until 12:30 CET
Les Eplatures closed until 11:00 CET
Southampton Airport closed till 12:00 today
Delays at Amsterdam, Geneva, Munich and Copenhagen
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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radar, very useful, thanks.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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sounds from what I just heard that Heathrow is closing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Paris Charles De Gaulle operating at 50%
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radar, Delays at Munich are caused by the planes not being where they should be - probably the same for all the other continental airports. checking both Salzburg and Munich all the flights are leaving and arriving from everywhere except Gatwick/Heathrow, Stansted flights seem to be arriving on time in Salzburg.
We have very cold temperatures and about 2 foot of snow in the lowlands, but it is cleared and everyone is looking forward to enjoying a bluebird day on the slopes or a Glühwein or two at the Christmas Markets. Off to Salzburg myself for Christmas shopping and an evening at the Weihnachtsmarkt 
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yes, sorry, whoever said that on the radio was obviously wrong.
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Aviation weather report from Gatwick now indicates runways closed due snow.
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Seeing the BBC giving the BAA representative quite a hard time. BAA have kept the airport running. It's BA that have cancelled their flights. Other operators seem to be running...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Well the M1 is clear and East Midlands Airport has no snow at all. So if people want to fly today, it might be a good option. Looks like Luton and Stanstead, Leeds Bradford and Doncaster are operating normally too. But Birmingham has currently 'suspended operations' to clear the runway.
Looks like the snow is very localised in certain areas, more west than east this time round. Good luck to anyone travelling today.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Gatwick closed till 15.00 UK, all flights
Pisa / Firenze closed till 17.00 local
Southampton closed till 14.00 local
Brussels only one runway open
Heathrow, BMI have cancelled all domestic and European flights to and from Heathrow until 17.00 local
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You know it makes sense.
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London City & Heathrow now closed.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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radar, looks like left and right hands of Heathrow not communicating properly as both 1150 and 1220 weather reports state 'SNOCLO'.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Alastair, UPDATE: both runways closed until at least 4:00pm while we clear snow and ice. Passengers should not attempt to come to the airport.
just came in from heathrow
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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wife has just rung to say she has been sat on ryanair flight from stansted to salzburg for an hour and been told to get off as airport shut. just started snowing lightly apparently. what a f****king nonsense, i just cut short skiing some excellent powder to drive to airport to pick up the family.
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Crazy that a plane is stuck in the middle of the runway at Heathrow full of passengers and it cant move anywhere!
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| Crazy that a plane is stuck in the middle of the runway at Heathrow full of passengers and it cant move anywhere! |
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update from stansted, airport I think is open just ryan********air cancelled a bunch of flights. probably did some maths that a delay would cost them more than F****k up the plans of their customers. still snowing lightly stansted, the paper wings must be getting wet.
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it's not only snow, it's the ice too, isn't it. Just a very little ice will crash a plane. They do need to be pretty careful.
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K8T, well it must depend on how long you are planning to be out for. Couple of days then not worth it - but if its for Christmas/a week or so then probably best thing to do - if you car is all prepared for the long haul though with chains etc, lots of food, drinks, blankets in the car too. Good luck!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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K8T, think the news said Gatwick runways would be clear soon. Will double check.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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yup Gatwick re-opened
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roads in France not good - friends who just drove down spent two hours completely stationary south of Calais last night. 40 mph all the way. Looks like being better in a couple of days.
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w,
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Looks like being better in a couple of days
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hope so - we are driving back to UK on Tuesday.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Gatwick Airport reopened its runway at 1445, slightly earlier than planned, but it is warning passengers to check their flight status before travelling as many services have been cancelled or delayed.
British Airways has cancelled all shorthaul flights from Gatwick for the rest of the day and all its longhaul flights from the airport due to depart before 1700 have also been cancelled.
Heathrow Airport remains closed at least until 1600. BA has cancelled all shorthaul flights from the airport for the rest of the day and all longhaul flights due to depart before 1900.
Bmi has cancelled all its flights from Heathrow and from the rest of the UK to London until Sunday.
Heathrow said its teams were working to re-open one of its two runways at around 1600, but it urged passengers not to go to the airport until further notice.
Police have closed some access roads to Heathrow Airport.
Both British Airways and easyJet are offering passengers the option of re-booking on later flights or claiming a full refund. BA passengers due to fly from Heathrow or Gatwick on Sunday may also cancel or delay their travel plans without incurring additional fees.
Other airports to have closed runways include Birmingham (until 1700) and Bournemouth (until 1600). Southampton has just re-opened.
Manchester Airport closed between 1100 and 1145 for snow clearing, but it is now re-open. The duty manager said some flights have been cancelled and some others have been delayed, but the airport is expecting to remain open for the rest of the day.
London Stansted remains open but the airport is warning of some delays and cancellations. London City is also open but the airport said passengers should check their flight status with the airline or check the airport website.
The BBC is reporting 'mayhem' at Aberdeen, Bristol, Exeter, Cardiff and at London City airports. Exeter closed earlier today but the runway is now open, although the airport admitted it was suffering delays and cancellations.
Some airports that were closed yesterday have re-opened, including Belfast International, but severe weather across Europe is disrupting flights to many destinations including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark and Amsterdam.
All air passengers are advised to check the status of their flight before travelling to the airport and leave extra time for their journeys due to difficult driving conditons.
Additional snow ploughs have arrived at Gatwick and the airport said earlier this morning that it aimed to have them operational later this afternoon.
Easyjet, which cancelled all Gatwick flights until 1000 and is advising of possible further cancellations and delays to other flights throughout today.
Courtesy of TravelMole.net
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm flying out of Bournemouth on Monday to Geneva, backup is Southampton to Chambery/Geneva. Both geneva flights out of B'mouth cancelled today, hopefully it will be cleared by Monday, Geneva looks open at the moment.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't like to fly to Calgary from Gatwick today, nearly 7 hours delay and counting, in contrast to Manchester which was delayed by 3 hours, worst off all that backlog is immense! It could take well into tomorrow morning to clear that!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Great news about Gatwick if we can get there Stuck on M 40. Been in car nine hours now! 159 miles in thT time but took six hours to do 59 miles
We are going for the week. We better have good snow when we get there
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K8T, best of luck. You deserve to get there after all that!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Pamski wrote: |
| K8T, well it must depend on how long you are planning to be out for. Couple of days then not worth it - but if its for Christmas/a week or so then probably best thing to do - if you car is all prepared for the long haul though with chains etc, lots of food, drinks, blankets in the car too. Good luck! |
Going to make decision tomorrow now. Have snow tyres on flask, blankets but running out of food already. Plenty of Mars bars though. Settling down for a night in the car!
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K8T, what is your flight number? Want to pm me your mobile number and I will keep you updated if you want, if your mobile internet access is not great?
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Season stats so far -
No of planes sat on "Departing shortly - just waiting for a slot" - 2
No of planes disembarked after 4+ hours -2
Hours spent trying to recover baggage - Countless
Hours spent on phone to rebooking lines - Countless
Days skied - 0
Anyone want to pay me to stay at home the rest of the season?
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Heathrow is reporting that it will remain closed all day on Sunday because of ice and snow around airplane parking stands. It says no arrivals and only "a handful" of departures.
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Manchester operating normally 
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ooh gate 7, must go
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