Passengers have been told by BA to not show up at the airport unless they have a confirmed booking on a flight that is operating. “Please check directly with your airline”.
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A few 129 flights – equivalent to 10 per cent of departures – were cancelled at Heathrow Airport on Monday due to air traffic restrictions caused by low visibility.
More than 100 of today’s flights have been cancelled by British Airways – mostly to and from its main base, London Heathrow, and the Docklands airport, London City.
Passengers hoping to travel through Gatwick have also been advised to check ahead for any disruption.
A spokesperson for the Dublin Airport Authority says conditions have improved this morning – but a number of flights into the London city area are cancelled.
In foggy conditions, airports have to switch to radar and “low visibility procedures” to ensure aircraft can taxi, take-off and land safely.
Tom wrote: “A 2 hour delay but would like to thank BritishAirways for getting us back into Heathrow safely tonight despite the dense, lingering fog”.
THICK fog over parts of Britain has left planes from Irish airports stranded on the runways. London City was effectively closed, with visibility down to about 50m, the report added.
The fog also affected road traffic, and highways.
And Jack Lewis, of West Midlands Ambulance Service, tweeted: “Weather update”.
A driver died and a five-year-old girl was injured on Sunday when a auto apparently hit a tree in thick fog in Uttoxeter, central England. “Fog is clearing here … flights running on time”, England’s Birmingham Airport said via Twitter at 7:36 a.m. ET (12:36 p.m. local time).
Sky News weather presenter Jo Wheeler says: “Mist and fog made an unwelcome return on Sunday night, more extensive and more widespread than Saturday night”.
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Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, Manchester, Dublin, Belfast and Geneva were among other European airports where delays and cancellations were higher than normal Monday, according to FlightAware.
