GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport is Europe’s busiest nighttime airport, according to Le Monde, and the French don’t like it. A German decision 5 April to close Frankfurt, another busy hub, from 23:00 to 05:00 is being watched closely by the French. The Paris newspaper says that until now authorities have resisted pressure to close the airport for fear of losing out to the competition. Roissy is Europe’s second busiest airport, but with 160 airline flights between 22:00 and 06:00, it holds the top night slot. Le Monde reports that with the Paris airports group claiming the night business employs 27,000 people, with euros4.5 billion in turnover, the lights wont’ go out easily on night flights.
Update 10 February: pair found, in good condition
Photos removed to respect family’s privacy
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND / PARIS, FRANCE – Mizué Bachelard and her seven-year-old daughter Hanaé may have been seen in Annecy, Swiss police said Friday. The mother and child disappeared Thursday evening 26 January and have been tracked to Paris. Police in Paris have opened a “worrying disappearance” investigation and police in canton Vaud, Switzerland, have opened an investigation for “putting the life of another in danger”.
A police team from Lausanne is in Paris working closely with French police.
The mother, 35, is described by police as “psychologically fragile”.
The mother and daughter were possibly spotted Thursday 3 February at 02:30 in the morning on the A40, in an autoroute toll booth area, but they say they can’t rule out or be certain the pair seen were Bachelard and her daughter.
French police have traced the woman to Paris Friday 27 January when she appeared at Éditions Albin Michel, 34 bd Edgar Quinet in the 14th arrondissement at 08:30. She had sent the publisher a manuscript by post. At 09:40 that morning she took money from a cash machine on the rue de Sèvre in the 6th arrondissement. The mother and daughter were wearing the same clothes they had on when they were seen at a gas station in Bursins, canton Vaud, Switzerland, the night of Thursday 26 January.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Vaud police at +41 21 644 4444.
Description
Mizué Bachelard is 160cm tall, thin and “wispy”, with chestnut hair (she often wears it tied with a band) and brown eyes.
She was last seen wearing a pink pullover, checkered pants or pyjama-style bottoms, and a brown-beige coat.
Her daughter is 120cm tall, thin, with chestnut hair and light blue eyes.
She was wearing a red and white striped pullover, dark pants and a blue jacket with a hood.
Car: blue Nissan Micra car, Vaud license plates VD 551’987 .
Update 10 February: Pair found, now safe. Photos removed to protect family’s privacy
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Police in two cantons have issued missing persons reports Wednesday 1 February, and they are asking the public for help finding them.
Canton Vaud police say 35-year-old Mizué Bachelard and her 7-year-old daughter Hanaé Noémi disappeared Tuesday evening 31 January from their home in Chexbres.
The mother is “psychologically fragile” say police.
They put out an alert after the mother bought petrol in Bursins, on the A1 autoroute, for her blue Nissan Micra car, Vaud license plates VD 551’987 at 19:40.
She then took money out of a bank cash machine in Versoix and at 09:00 this morning out of a machine in Paris. Mizué Bachelard is 160cm tall, thin and wispy, with chestnut hair (she often wears it tied with a band) and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink pullover, checkered pants or pyjama-style bottoms, and a brown-beige coat.
Her daughter is 120cm tall, thin, with chestnut hair and light blue eyes. She was wearing a red and white striped pullover, dark pants and a blue jacket with a hood.
Police believe the pair may be in Paris.
They ask anyone with information to phone +41 21 644 4444.
Valais youth missing from home since 26 January
Bastien Monnet, 18 years old, has not been seen since the night of 26 January in St Maurice.
Sebastien Monnet, missing from St Maurice
He is 187 cm tall, trim build, dark brown hair cut very short, brown eyes. He was last seen wearing military pants with US Army on them and very large side pockets, a black jacket with hood covered in logos, a black winter jacket with small red and gray motifs and black cloth trainers.
Police in canton Valais are asking anyone with information to contact them at +41 27 326 5656.
Chirac guilty of responsibility for 28 fictional Paris employees
PARIS, FRANCE – Jacques Chirac, France’s former president, was found guilt Thursday 15 December of paying for 28 employees out of the Paris budget when he was the city’s mayor, 1990 to 1995. The employees were real, but the jobs should not have been on the Paris payroll, for example chauffeurs for fellow RPR party members and eight jobs in Nanterre. Chirac was running for president at the time and the jobs, the prosecution argued, were designed to enlarge his sphere of influence. Chirac had already lost two bids for president at the time.
Seven others charged with Chirac were also found guilty of misuse of public funds and two were found innocent.
The 79-year-old former president, who could have faced up to seven years in prison and euros 150,000 in fines was not in court; he did not appear in court during the case’s hearing in September, either, absent due to severe and permanent neurological problems, according to his doctors.
The city of Paris did not press charges against Chirac, whose lawyers have argued that he could not have been aware of payroll details and that the salaries paid out of the Paris budget were an administrative error. Chirac and his party have repaid the salaries to Paris.
Links to other sites: Figaro (Fr), Le Monde and TSR with AFP (Fr)
LONDON, ENGLAND – It took one hour, 28 minutes and it was a tough match, but Swiss Roger Federer defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2 2-6 6-4 Sunday 20 November for the opening match of the ATP World Tour Finals. The two faced off just a week ago when Federer beat Tsonga in the final of the ATP Masters tournament at Paris-Bercy.
Federer played a better first set and then Tsonga powered past him in the second set, breaking service twice.
The match was even in the third set until Tsonga fell apart in the final game.
PARIS, FRANCE – Carlos, known as the Jackal, is on trial in Paris for crimes committed some 30 years ago, and the courtroom proceedings promise to be colourful, if the first day was anything to go by. His lawyer, who is also his wife, argued that the statute of limitations is not three decades, while the defendant, born in Venezuela as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez blew kisses to a comedian in the audience, looked bored and then at one point leaped to his feet to talk about respecting victims.
Carlos came to fame as a terrorist in the early 1970s when he wounded the head of Marks & Spencers British department store chain, in London. He held several Opec oil ministers hostage in Vienna in 1975 and he is now accused of four bombings in Paris in the early 1980s. Carlos says he wasn’t responsible for them.
French secret service agents kidnapped him in Sudan in 1994 and took him to France, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1997. He is 62 years old.
Wikipedia notes that “Carlos was dubbed “The Jackal” by The Guardian after one of its correspondents reportedly spied Frederick Forsyth‘s novel The Day of the Jackal near some of the fugitive’s belongings.”
Links to other sites: Figaro (Fr), Guardian, Independent, Reuters video
PARIS, FRANCE – French writer Tristane Banon is having a big week, with her latest novel out and her criminal court case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) dropped by prosecutors after the initial investigation.
First the book: a thinly veiled autobiographical “novel” called The Hypocrites’ Ball was published in France Thursday 13 October and reviewers are scrambling to highlight the negative passages that refer to DSK without naming him.
Second, the court case: French public prosecutors dropped the criminal case against DSK Thursday after determining that there is not enough evidence to convict him of attempted rape in 2003, a crime whose 10-year statute of limitations is not yet up. They said there was, however, evidence of “acts that could be qualified as sexual aggression”, with DSK admitting to trying to embrace Banon; the statute of limitations for such crimes is only three years, however, so charges could not be filed.
Banon says she will file civil charges, as the hotel maid in the US did after the rape case she brought against DSK was dropped. She called Thursday’s decision a “first victory” in that DSK stands accused of sexual aggression based on evidence.
Links to other sites: Guardian, Le Monde (Fre), Liberation (Fre), Time
PARIS, FRANCE – The new Dijon-Mulhouse TGV train line in France was inaugurated Thursday 8 September by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The line, which will open to travelers in December 2011, will cut nearly 1.5 hours from the route, which will take just two hours instead of 3.5.
Soft drinks to have health prevention tax, like alcohol and tobacco
PARIS, FRANCE – The 2012 presidential election in France has fresh economic fodder for its debates, with the Left moving quickly to criticize the country’s new austerity plan. Prime Minister François Fillon Wednesday 24 August unveiled details of the belt-tightening programme, which aims to cut costs in order to allow France to maintain its dept payment programme. The new programme calls for a 1 billion euros cut in spending in 2011 and 11 billion in 2012.
The austerity programme is the result of slower than expected growth, with 1.75 percent now predicted for both 2011 and 2012, down from earlier predictions of 2.0 and 2.25, reports Le Monde.
Unions and Left-wing politicians are decrying the cuts as a patchwork solution that will have the greatest impact on the poor, who can least afford it. The very wealthiest will be taxed more under the programme and, a detail that has caught the media’s eye, soft drinks will be taxed alongside alcohol and tobacco, in an effort to reduce obesity.
International sports, cycling
Andy SCHLECK - Cadel EVANS - Frank SCHLECK ©Presse Sports/B.Papon
PARIS, FRANCE – Australian Cadel Evans won the Tour de France, edging out the Schleck brothers in the time trial on the penultimate day.
British rider Mark Cavendish won the final sprint along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for the third time in a row and also became the first Briton to win the green jersey for the top sprinter.
Evans is the first Australian to win the Tour, and at 34 is the oldest winner since the second world war.
The Luxemburg Schleck brothers took the next two places, with Andy 1 minute 34 seconds back and Frank another minute behind.
French rider Thomas Voeckler, who wore the yellow jersey for much of the race, was fourth and last year’s winner Alberto Contador fifth.
Links to other sites: Le Tour de France, Telegraph, Guardian
PARIS, FRANCE – Air France cabin crew filed a preliminary notice Monday of plans for a four-day strike from 29 July-1 August. The strike is expected to cover long-haul as well as flights within France, according to Le Monde (Fre), which details the labour dispute between unions and the company.
The strike is designed to force Air France back to the negotiating table over work conditions.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse made it home safely from Paris, warmed not only by the sun but by its success in the French capital, with more than 350,000 visitors during the Le Bourget airshow. The plane made three journeys for a total of about 1,500km during its maiden European flights sojourn.
“The feedback from our European flight campaign is encouraging,” says Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse founder and president. “The welcome we received from political and industrial circles in Brussels and Paris shows that Solar Impulse is pioneering a new way of thinking in terms of renewable energy and energy saving.”
The plane on its three trips was sailing through the air at about 50kph on sunny days: it’s easy for observers on the ground to forget how sensitive the giant solar bird really is and that these maiden flights are test flights. Solar Impulse could have landed earlier than 19:45 in Payerne, but thermal bubbles created over the autoroutes, rail lines and towns can de-stabilize it.
The information and experience gathered during the flights will now be put to work in planning the next stage of the solar airplane adventure, possibly a flight to Morocco, pilot Andre Borschberg said during his Sunday flight.
Solar Impulse at Le Bourget airport in Paris, during the solar airplane's first European trip
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse, flying with only solar power, is en route to Switzerland from Paris. The plane left Le Bourget airport in France at 07:11 Sunday 3 July and is expected to arrive in Payerne at 19:00 this evening.
You can follow the flight live on www.solarimpulse.com and via the Smartphone app “Solar Impulse Inventing the Future”, available free on Appstore and Androïd Market.
On Twitter: @andreborschberg and @solarimpulse and on Facebook.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse’s return flight to Switzerland from Paris will not take place Friday as planned, the solar airplane’s team said lat Thursday 30 June. “Air traffic restrictions and weather conditions in the Jura region and in Paris would prevent Solar Impulse from returning back its take-off location in case of a technical problem,” the group said in a statement.
Heading home: Solar Impulse could be back in its hangar in Payerne by Friday night, after its big European flights trip, weather permitting
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse appears to have a window of opportunity Friday 1 July to fly home from the Le Bourget airshow in Paris, where it has been a centre of attention after making its first international flights using only solar power. The weather promises to be fine and sunny for the Paris-Payerne run but the flight director could decide at the last minute to make a change to the departure date or the flight plan.
The plane will take off in the morning from Paris-le Bourget and climb to a cruising altitude of 3,500 meters. The plane’s team has released the following details:
“The plane will fly east towards Troyes, will continue to Pontarlier and land at Payerne airfield at the end of the day.
Photo taken by Andre Borschberg from Solar Impulse during Brussels-Paris flight
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse, the Swiss solar-powered airplane, left Brussels early Tuesday 14 June in a second attempt to fly to Paris, with weather conditions favourable. The plane left Brussels at 05:10 this morning and landed at 21:15 at Paris-Le Bourget airport, a 16:05 hour flight for pilot André Borschberg.
The plane had been in Brussels since its first European flight 14 May, across national borders and through normally crowded air corridors. The flight to Paris will allow it to participate in the world’s largest air show. Solar Impulse attempted the flight last Friday but was forced to turn back due mianly to weather conditions.
Flight conditions Tuesday were qualified by Borschberg as “excellent”.
Background, Solar Impulse, GenevaLunch
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – AF447, the Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the ocean two-and-a-half hours after taking off, killing 228 people, was out of the pilots’ control for a little over four minutes before crashing, a report by the French investigating authority shows.
France’s BEA Friday 27 May provided an initial report Friday that gives a chronology of events in the cockpit. The BEA says it is too early to draw conclusions, but it appeara likely now that the three pilots were not receiving accurate speed readings.
The conclusions, which may be part of a report the BEA says it will issue in July, could result in major legal and financial problems for Air France and Airbus if they are found to be responsible for malfunctioning and a lack of training for the pilots to handle the situation.
Reuters, in English, and Le Monde, in French, provide detailed articles on the BEA report.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Air France and Airbus were called in by a French judge 19 and 20 May to provide evidence about the airplane that went down off the coast of Brazil in June 2009, reports French news service Free.
Details have not been released, but earlier in the week the BEA, the French agency charged with investigating the crash, came down hard on newspaper Figaro for publishing incorrect and unverified information. The agency said at a press briefing 16 May that all the data has now been downloaded from the black boxes found at the end of April, and “this data will now be subjected to detailed in-depth analysis. This work will take several weeks.”
The debate continues over whether to bring to the surface bodies from the June 2009 Air France crash into the ocean off the coast of Brazil, reports CNN, which reports that a French government statement says the first recovered body, still attached to a seat, was brought up. DNA samples from the body will be sent to a laboratory for analysis according to the US news service, but French media have not reported this.
Some families want their dead left at the bottom of the sea while others are asking for them to be recovered. Some but not all of the 288 bodies of those on the flight were discovered when a part of the plane was found in April 2011. The cause of the crash remains a mystery.
The process is technically complicated because the bodies have been at sea for nearly two years and can only be removed very slowly and cautiously from their burial place 3,900 metres deep.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – French and French-language Swiss media have added a new angle to the weekend revelation that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, was arrested on attempted rape and related charges: Tristane Banon, a young French journalist who said in 2007 that a senior political figure tried to rape her in 2002, has resurfaced. The man was named as DSK, the French media nickname for Strauss-Kahn.
Banon, who interviewed Strauss-Kahn for a book she was writing when she was 22 years old, told a French TV interviewer in 2007 that she had had to fight off a political figure, whose name she mentioned, but it was beeped from the show. The TV team, however, was aware of who the man was. She later said she had seen lawyers and put together a legal complaint of sexual aggression which she did not file, dissuaded in part by her mother, who is a senior politician in France. “I didn’t want to be known as the girl who had a problem with a French politician.”
Her mother confirmed the information in an interview Monday 16 May with Paris-Normandie. Anne Mansouret, the mother, is a Socialist candidate for the French presidency in the primaries set for September, as is Strauss-Kahn.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – April 2012 will see President Sarkozy running for re-election in France against a candidate whose name will not be known until the autumn of 2011 primaries.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is considered the most likely opponent, according to Le Monde. (Fr).
The French Interior Ministry 11 May announced the dates for the first and second round of the 2012 election: 22 April and 6 May. Sarkozy has not definitely confirmed he will stand for re-election, but he made it clear in early May that he would most likely run for office again.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The latest Swiss stamp is one of the most unlikely pieces of art created by Thomas Hirschhorn in recent years. The Swiss-born artist, who is based in Paris, is known for his larger than life room-size installations, but to celebrate Switzerland’s part in the Venice Biennale, an international art exhibition held every two years, Hirschhorn agreed to do a tiny-size creation.
The postage stamp shows a torn bit of cardboard, a throwback to Hirschhorn’s earlier days, the post office says in issuing the stamp: “His miniature work is a universal declaration of love for art. The statement ‘Art is Resistance’ summarizes Hirschhorn’s artistic position in a single sentence – an individual contribution which blends into the overall image of the stamp. In designing this stamp as a piece of torn cardboard, Hirschhorn drew inspiration from his earlier works: as an unknown artist in the 1980s, he wrote on cardboard signs and placed them in house doorways or under windscreen wipers.”
The one franc stamp went on sale Thursday 5 May.
Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – A second black box from the Air France flight that went down over the ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazel to Paris in June 2009, has been found. The French investigating office, BEA, announced Monday 2 May that both the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), found Monday and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR), found Sunday, are whole, with the CVR’s chassis attached to the box. The FDR’s chassis was found separetely, last week.
The two boxes were found about a dozen metres apart, according to Le Monde (Fr). They are being kept in water to maintain them in a state that is as close as possible to that in which they were found until they can be safely examined.
The cause of the crash early into the flight, which cost the lives of 228 people, remains a mystery.
The boxes are said by investigators to be in “good shape” but it is not yet clear if the data can be retrieved.
The orange chassis, which held the black box with flight data for the Rio to Paris Air France 477 flight that crashed 1 June 2009, was found Wednesday 27 April. Searchers came across it during their second day of diving. French experts say the black box’s recorded data could possibly still be decoded despite several months at the bottom of the ocean, if it is found.
Divers are looking for the data, but they are also searching for bodies in the wreckage of the tail that was found only three weeks ago. All 228 people aboard the plane died in the crash.
Solar impulse on its maiden flight
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse will fly to Brussels International Airport from Payerne, canton Vaud, Monday 2 May, weather permitting. The flight will be the first international one for the solar-powered plane.
The European Commission, which has backed the project from the start, is the patron for this flight. The airplane will be displayed in the European capital from 23 to 29 May as part of a week of events to promote energy efficiency and renewable resources in particular.
It will then “attempt to fly on to Paris-Le Bourget, where it is eagerly awaited as the ‘Special Guest’ of the 49th International Paris Air Show from 20 to 26 June 2011,” Solar Impulse notes in a statement issued 28 April.
The French transport ministry said Monday 4 April that it should be possible to identify several of the bodies in the large part of the plane which has been found in the sea off Brazil’s coast. The fourth search for the plane that went missing mysteriously 1 June 2009 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, turned up a large and intact part of the aircraft body over the weekend, putting to rest theories that perhaps the plane had exploded.
The crash killed 228 people and the black boxes were never found, but officials are now hopeful they might be uncovered.
Links to other sites: Le Monde (Fre) with initial photos, Reuters
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A scam that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of Swiss francs being lost by small businesses in canton Fribourg in recent weeks has now spread to canton Vaud, say cantonal police.
Small businesses and craftsman are the target: they receive by mail their company’s supposed entry in what appears to be an official register or yearbook, are asked to correct it and/or sign it and send it back to a fax number that starts with the Geneva prefix of 022.
They are then billed exorbitant amounts for the update and if they complain they are sent threatening letters by lawyers.
New trains will link Geneva, Lausanne to Paris in 3 hours
Next stop, Paris: 3 hours 4 minutes by December 2012
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swiss rail company CFF and the French SNCF will spend CHF100 million, they announced Wednesday 16 February, to buy 19 new TGV high speed trains that will be put into service in December 2012.
The buying bonanza will result in 27 daily high-speed connections between Paris and Swiss cities.
Geneva will have nine daily TGV runs to Paris instead of the current seven, making the trip in 3 hours 5 minutes, thanks to higher speeds for the new trains. Zurich to Paris will be cut by more than a half hour, with the trip taking 4 hours 3 minutes.
The new trains are being purchased by Lyria, the joint-venture between the Swiss and French rail companies. Lyria in 2010 saw its earnings rise by 17 percent to CHF340 million. The company carried 40 million passengers, some 40 percent of them on international trains.
Basel to Paris will also become faster, just over three hours, which is expected to give airlines serious competition for this run.
BREAKING NEWS -
President Zine al-Abedine Ben of Tunisia has resigned and is reported to have left the country. Ben Ali had been in power since 1987 and 13 January, Thursday evening, he promised to step down at the end of his current term, in 2014, but growing crowds of protesters continued to take to the streets.
Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announced on television that he is taking over temporarily, and he vowed to respect the constitution and implement promised reforms.
Reuters reports that police in Paris have been alerted to await his arrival and Al Jazeera says that “Maltese air traffic controllers have told Al Jazeera that Ben Ali is bound for Paris, though the Maltese government has denied any knowledge of Ben Ali’s plane having stopped in Malta after having left Tunis.”
Links to other sites: AFP, Al Jazeera, Reuters
Trains are in Europe are filling up, as flight options shrink (photo: Zurich main station)
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - European flights remain chaotic Tuesday morning 21 December, and there are now fears that the repercussions will continue to affect flights through Christmas. Among Tuesday’s announcements from airports and airlines: no flights are departing or arriving at Geneva’s Cointrin (update: still closed at 11:00). BA says that only half its Heathrow flights are operating (Gatwick and City flights are running, however), Duesseldorf in Germany is iced in, Frankfurt is closed due to fresh snow, after first cancelling 300 flights on the heels of cancellations for nearly 600 Monday. Brussels is accepting flights, but none are leaving, reports TSR, due to a shortage of de-icing liquid for the planes.
Trains are proving a difficult option as well, with a one-kilometre line forming at St Pancreas station in London for the Eurostar train, Swiss television TSR reports.
Background and contacts for airlines in Geneva / GenevaLunch
Links to other sites: BBC, Guardian, Le Monde (Fre) TSR (Fre), The Local, Germany
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s Cointrin International Airport has announced that there are currently some flights arriving and departing, but travellers are cautioned to check with their airlines before going to the Geneva Airport. European weather continues to cause severe disruptions: flights have been cancelled or postponed in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt due to snow, wind and icy conditions.
The web site of Geneva’s airport has been overloaded several times and only part of the site is accessible, but airport authorities are advising passengers to check directly with their airlines for flight information.
Here is the list of airlines from www.gva.ch 19 December, reproduced in pdf as a public service announcement. Note that if looking at this list later it will not include any contact information changes.
Update from Heathrow, 16:15
“Heathrow Airport will not be accepting arrivals on Sunday, and will only manage a handful of departures as our airfield team continues to deal with the impacts of yesterday’s bad weather.
“No flights will operate from Terminals 1 or 4 and a limited number of departures will leave from Terminals 3 and 5. We are extremely sorry for the disruption this will cause to passengers and airlines and we stress that passengers must check with their airlines before travelling to the airport. We will provide regular updates and you can contact your airline here.
“This morning, we listened carefully to the advice of our airside operations team and reluctantly judged that while Heathrow’s northern runway remains clear, the change in temperature overnight led to a significant build up of ice on parking stands around the planes and this requires the airfield to remain closed until it is safe to move planes around.
“We have 200 aircraft parking stands and have a team of several hundred people working to treat these airside areas and to keep passengers in the terminal as warm and as comfortable as possible while we do everything we can to get Heathrow moving.
“We are removing 30 tonnes of snow from each stand, but the temperature remains firmly below zero and Heathrow’s capacity is limited to the extent that all parking stands are occupied by aircraft, making the job of clearing and treating them more difficult.
“Safety is our first priority and we hope this course of action will allow us to offer a fuller service to passengers and airlines using Heathrow tomorrow.” (link)
Update from Amsterdam Schiphol, 16:15
“Due to weather conditions in Europe flights are delayed or cancelled. Please see the latest flight information on this website or contact the website of you airline. Before travelling to the airport we kindly advise you to check the latest flight information. If your flight is cancelled, please contact your airline before travelling to the airport.” (link)
Update from Paris Charles de Gaulle, 16:15
“Flights can be delayed or cancelled due to snow over Europe. Please contact your airline before going to the airport.” (link)
Update from Frankfurt, 16:15
“Flight delays and cancellations might occur at Frankfurt Airport due to wintry weather and reduced visibility. Passengers are kindly requested to contact their airline and to check traffic reports, e.g. on the radio or on teletext.” (ed. note: all flights on the departures page are cancelled or delayed), link
