en.rian.ru reported that thousands of passengers have been stranded for another day across Europe as airports have to cancel hundreds of flights due to heavy snowfalls. London’s Heathrow airport has scrapped 20 percent of its Sunday flights as forecasts warned of more snow. Some 260 flight have been cancelled following 100 ones scrapped on ……Read […]
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Dailyrecord.co.uk reported that temperatures in the north of Scotland plummeted to below minus 12C last night as the latest bitter weather system gripped the country. Braemar in Aberdeenshire was the coldest part of the UK as it registered minus 12.7C. But the whole of Scotland shivered in a bitter prelude to a weather system that […]
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It was ‘business as usual’ for the UK’s major airports today despite a freezing fog that descended on parts of the UK overnight. A cold snap is set to grip the country today, heralding a weather system that forecasters say will leave the UK covered in up to four inches of snow by the weekend, […]
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All Nippon Airways (ANA) grounded its fleet of 17 Dreamliners when its flight NH 692 from Yamaguchi Ube was forced to land shortly after take-off. Japan Airlines followed suit, saying it would ground its fleet of seven 787s from 16 January until further notice. Read Article
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The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor , said that each day of strike in Iberia means 10 million lost. Defend connectivity to Latin America and recalls that the Barajas Airport is an investment of the Spanish to be preserved.The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, said that each day of strike in Iberia mean lost 10 […]
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Many of us are guilty of taking a power nap at work but the cockpit of an airplane isn’t the best place to try to fit in forty winks. Yet alarmingly more than four in ten British pilots admit to having fallen asleep at the controls of a passenger jet, according to a new survey. […]
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