Cgnnrw From Germany, joined May 2005, 1075 posts, RR: 3 Posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 6866 times:
Just saw on WDR teletext that DUS is currectly closed due to snow and wind. Any other European airports affected? I know the Mid-Atlantic States are badly affected. How's it looking over there at the moment?
DALCA From Netherlands, joined Aug 2006, 455 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 6798 times:
AMS is badly affected by the heavy snow fall, only 1 runway open. May delays, cancellations and diversions to all over the place. Some flights to MST, CGN, HAJ, STN and even GOT.
Zanair flight, please hold on finals as we have to clear rhino's off the runway. Next flight: AMS-FRA-SIN-FRA-AMS
Cgnnrw From Germany, joined May 2005, 1075 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 6650 times:
Quoting DALCA (Reply 1): AMS is badly affected by the heavy snow fall, only 1 runway open. May delays, cancellations and diversions to all over the place. Some flights to MST, CGN, HAJ, STN and even GOT.
Not good. Isn't DUS a diversion airport when AMS is closed?
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6575 times:
I just heard the WDR 2 radio news, a DUS airport spokesman said that they don't know when the airport will be open again, they are simply unable to carry this huge amount of snow away at the moment. When I look out of the window I would say that it remains closed for a while, I live approx. 45 kilometers away from DUS and it is snowing like crazy here. I have no clue where I can get smokes, I will definitely not drive to the gas station to buy some, the snow on the streets is at least 10 centimeters high and the WDR traffic news are reporting of several accidents on the Autobahns around here.
Vfw614 From Germany, joined Dec 2001, 3584 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6561 times:
DUS flights are also diverting to HAJ, FMO and FRA, although the bulk of lfights has gone to CGN.
From what I can see, even Lufthansa is diverting to smaller airports such as FMO (e.g. flights from LHR and BUD) and HAJ (e.g. flight from WAW), not only to CGN and FRA. According to the news, FRA is also operating with some limitations due to snow.
As CGN has now also accepted diversions from LGG, it seems that LGG is closed as well..
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6494 times:
Quoting Vfw614 (Reply 9): No, it improves your health and supports you quitting...
No way. I will get my snowboard jacket now and walk through the snow to the next cigarette automat which is approx. 10 minutes away. I am rather freezing for 20 minutes than having no smokes.
DALCA From Netherlands, joined Aug 2006, 455 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6470 times:
AMS is slowly recovering form the snow. The worst has past and 1 runway is now fully open and they working on a second one. Incoming flights can be accepted and departures are going right over my house.
Zanair flight, please hold on finals as we have to clear rhino's off the runway. Next flight: AMS-FRA-SIN-FRA-AMS
Vfw614 From Germany, joined Dec 2001, 3584 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6473 times:
Telling from teletext, FMO must be closed now as well as all departures since 12:30 show as cancelled.
In another thread it was mentioned that MAN is now closed as well. Seems to become a Europe-wide issue.
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 10): No way. I will get my snowboard jacket now and walk through the snow to the next cigarette automat which is approx. 10 minutes away. I am rather freezing for 20 minutes than having no smokes
I have a gut feeling that the automat will not work because of the cold temperatures. But you should take the walk anyway to let your tarred lungs have some fresh air
FRACO7X From Greece, joined Apr 2004, 345 posts, RR: 9 Reply 13, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6425 times:
Quoting Vfw614 (Reply 8): According to the news, FRA is also operating with some limitations due to snow.
Yes it has started snowing since almost a hour here in FRA. My girlfriend has to stay at least a hour longer in here early shift and all late shifts were called almost two hours later for duty. Poor colleges at the airport. They already had to handle irregularities the last four days!
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 10): I am rather freezing for 20 minutes than having no smokes.
Lucky me that I got fresh supply from a friend who returned from duty today.
Especially the guys who have to work outside at the ramp. I don't want to work there today in these weather conditions.
Quoting FRACO7X (Reply 13):
Lucky me that I got fresh supply from a friend who returned from duty today.
And I had to work through a damned snowstorm (I didn't see one single car on the streets). I only had coins for one box, I took Lucky Strike instead of Marlboro because there is one cigarette more in the box.
Dmt52 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 72 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 6248 times:
I was on Delta 25 from DUS to ATL and it was canceled. The pilot said DUS does not have the equipment to clean off the runways or aircraft with this much snow. Now we cannot get our luggage because the say the equipment is frozen! What a mess.
I am sitting in a delayed ICE train from Hanover to Frankfurt, but it's only 20 oe 30 minutes. look forward to nthe ndrive home. There miust be cancellations in BRE as well, from BRE to HAJ there was a family in the train that showed ar tickets to MUC.
Bahadir From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 1727 posts, RR: 12 Reply 18, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 6179 times:
Quoting Dmt52 (Reply 16): I was on Delta 25 from DUS to ATL and it was canceled. The pilot said DUS does not have the equipment to clean off the runways or aircraft with this much snow. Now we cannot get our luggage because the say the equipment is frozen! What a mess.
That's why i always pack a change of cloths with me in my backpack when i travel international. You never know when you may end up staying overnight
Then I will call our HCC to send you all the diversions to CPH!
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 15): Especially the guys who have to work outside at the ramp. I don't want to work there today in these weather conditions.
Another friend of mine is a ramp agent. O and I think he has late shift today. Lets call him and find out how the situation currently is in FRA.
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 15): I only had coins for one box, I took Lucky Strike instead of Marlboro because there is one cigarette more in the box.
That's what I call effective handling of the situation.
Quoting PanHAM (Reply 17): I am sitting in a delayed ICE train from Hanover to Frankfurt, but it's only 20 oe 30 minutes. look forward to nthe ndrive home.
At least you will be home. My girlfriend told me that they already have problems to rebook or reroute passengers to several destinations. Lets hope the weather improves otherwise it will be Christmas at the airport for many passengers.
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 6046 times:
DUS seems to be open again. Their website is still down but I just took a look at the WDR teletext and saw that BE from MAN landed as well as TK from ESB and AB from STN (see screenshot below).
Vfw614 From Germany, joined Dec 2001, 3584 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 6013 times:
LUX and CRL have also been closed temporarily. Currently the bad weather is beginning to hit FRA.
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 20): DUS seems to be open again. Their website is still down but I just took a look at the WDR teletext and saw that BE from MAN landed as well as TK from ESB and AB from STN (see screenshot below).
Not sure how reliable this is. Just look at the MAN flight at 1555....
JRadier From Netherlands, joined Sep 2004, 4597 posts, RR: 51 Reply 24, posted (3 years 5 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 5752 times:
Quoting FRACO7X (Reply 19): That's what I call effective handling of the situation.
I call that a serious addiction......
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and ther
25 Sabena332: I am wondering how long CGN remains open. Currently I am watching the Cologne-Nuremberg football game and there is a huge amount of snow coming down
27 Vfw614: I am at the moment only a mile or so away from the stadium, and it is hardly snowing anymore. The TV creates a somewhat misleading impression. Has be
28 Sabena332: It looks indeed like a massive amount, I never thought that the TV pictures are so misleading. Thanks for your first hand information. Then we should
29 BartBus: How does the financial part of diversions work? Does the airline pays twice, or just the airport where they actually touched down?
31 FRACO7X: As it seems the chaos is building up in FRA. If you take a look on the departures almost no flight is leaving FRA. And my friend from the ramp replied
32 ZRH: ZRH has only some delays although we had one of the coldest nights in December since many decades; -14 Celsius.
33 BrouAviation: It's really embarassing, the snow isn't coming out of the sky with shiploads. We have about 4-6 inches here right now, which has fallen down in the la
34 PanHAM: FRA has at least a hundred cancellations, There was a lot of snow falling down, I drove from the central train stration in the city to my place in the
35 ZRH: In Switzerland the so called "Mitttelland", the lower part where the cities are, is not very cold. We also do not have much snow. The bit we have wil
36 TommyBP251b: Hi Everybody! I planned to go home by car tomorrow from BUD to CGN. I booked me now on the 4U flight tomorrow night. Flying is now more safe than driv
37 Aero145: Quattro rocks! But seriously, why do you have Quattro if you don’t use it?
38 Sabena332: I was listening to WDR 2 this afternoon while having a shower, they said that you should only drive when there is something really important because
39 R2rho: Yikes, I'm flying through DUS in two days! Up here in HAM it hasn't stopped snowing all weekend, saturday was a big mess apparently with everybody lea
40 Aero145: Damn! Sad to hear about this: here in the ”South” it’s not far as bad as in the North. Übrigens, have you had to really rely on your Quattro i
41 TommyBP251b: ...and got cancelled finally. Hope tomorrow it will fly as scheduled. "Boldog Karácsonyt" from Budapest Tom
42 ZKEOJ: hmm, it is about +25 degrees and sunny here....
43 Chootie: FWIW, I certainly hope that it all gets a lot better. Was at CGN this afternoon, and we still had the diverted LH467/19 ex MIA next to a EK aircraft.
44 ACDC8: Guess I should call my cousin in Mülheim and let him brag that they've got more snow then we do right now here in the Okanagan .... LOL! Oh well, hop
45 Sabena332: Not really. It was snowy when I drove home from work on Friday afternoon but there was no snow layer on the Autobahn because too many cars were drivi
46 Airbuseric: Around 2pm this afternoon AMS was really hit badly and runway conditions were poor. Stands were mostly occupied, and long queues for de-icing facilit
47 BrouAviation: I do. I find it embarassing that while organizing a so called important conference about us changing the climate, we still are not able to normally c
48 Airbuseric: The also couldn't organise the conference in Copenhagen to run smoothly. Haven't you followed the news and seen all the trouble? Is your aircraft the
49 FlySSC: CDG was hit first on Thursday and Friday by the bad weather (snow / wind / icy rain) Saturday was OK, just the time to recover a bit but yesterday mo
51 PSPfan: Try for once to clean out the city/village you live in completely from snow on a day like yesterday. And keep in mind that every piece of apron/taxiw
52 BrouAviation: Yes I have. I am talking about the fact that it's actually quite ironic we think we have any influence on weather or climate, and when mother nature
53 Airbuseric: Your profile age is in the 16-20 years age? So, I might understand that your knowledge might not be based on too much experience yet. Of course, you
54 BrouAviation: I have actually no experience in operating an airline at all. Of course that contributes in not understanding the trouble we are facing. But 99% of t
55 Airbuseric: 100% agree with you here. Communication is the keyword in this matter. Although I would not like to be the airline representative in such cases, sinc
56 R2rho: Well, DUS isn't closed anymore, but all LH flights into DUS, FRA, MUC are still running with a lot of delays. I missed my connection and rebooked for
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