Europe Travel Chaos

Global travel chaos that convulsed the Christmas weekend spilled into Monday with major flight cancellations impacting millions returning from holiday breaks, as Covid-19 cases surge to record levels in Europe and several US states.

Taxi drivers sowed traffic chaos in Europe's top cities on Wednesday by mounting one of the biggest protests ever against Uber, a U.S. car service whose smartphone app summons rides at the touch of a button.

A fresh storm brought new delays to the European Continent on Friday, snarling travel for thousands of Christmas Eve travelers from Paris and parts of Germany but London's Heathrow Airport was operating almost normally. "On a day like today, we would normally have had around 25,000 flights across Europe by now," Rena Fakhouri, a spokeswoman for the...

Huddled together Thursday morning with hundreds of displaced passengers in a large semiheated tent outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, Dennis and Bonnie Barlow of Virginia were reviewing the high points of their vacation so far. First, they cruised the Mediterranean on the Brilliance of the Seas, the ship, now notorious, whose battle with hurri...

Heathrow's boss announced Wednesday he would give up his hefty bonus this year after the world's busiest international airport was crippled by snowy conditions. Air and train travel throughout Europe finally began to return to normal.Temperatures have picked up in Britain and about 70 percent of Heathrow's planned departures -- some 900 flights -- ...

The snow was melting off London's streets, but Heathrow Airport told infuriated passengers it won't restore full service until Thursday -- five days after a five-inch (12-centimeter) snowfall turned hundreds of thousands of holiday plans into a nightmare of canceled flights and painful nights sleeping on terminal floors.Traveller's anger boiled ove...

The Christmas travel season turned angry and chaotic Monday as British officials struggled to clear snow and ice that paralyzed rail and air links and spawned cancellations and delays stranding thousands around the world.More than 48 hours after Britain's last snowfall, some furious passengers with boarding passes for Monday flights were not even a...

Ash clouds from a new surge in Icelandic volcanoes caused fresh travel chaos in major European air routes shutting down key airports in the continent. India's leading carrier Air India cancelled its Heathrow bound flights from Delhi and Mumbai on Monday.

Some of the elite London Marathon competitors faced an endurance test just reaching the British capital for Sunday's race, with travel plans disrupted by the volcanic ash cloud over Europe that forced organizers to spend around 150,000 pounds ($230,000) on private planes.

Europe's busiest airport reopened Tuesday as air traffic across the continent lurched back to life. But the gridlock created by Iceland's volcanic ash plume was far from over.

The impact to passengers and airlines of a travel shutdown across Europe caused by a volcanic ash cloud exceeds the airspace shutdown after the 9/11 attacks, the International Civil Aviation Organization said.

The volcanic ash over Europe has led to major disruptions of flights going to Europe and US at the Delhi international airport. Worried passengers are lining up not knowing when will they fly next to their destinations in Europe and US.

Travelers across Europe braced for chaos as a strike by British Airways cabin crew entered its third day on Monday and labor strife spread to other airlines.

Global travel chaos that convulsed the Christmas weekend spilled into Monday with major flight cancellations impacting millions returning from holiday breaks, as Covid-19 cases surge to record levels in Europe and several US states.

Taxi drivers sowed traffic chaos in Europe's top cities on Wednesday by mounting one of the biggest protests ever against Uber, a U.S. car service whose smartphone app summons rides at the touch of a button.

A fresh storm brought new delays to the European Continent on Friday, snarling travel for thousands of Christmas Eve travelers from Paris and parts of Germany but London's Heathrow Airport was operating almost normally. "On a day like today, we would normally have had around 25,000 flights across Europe by now," Rena Fakhouri, a spokeswoman for the...

Huddled together Thursday morning with hundreds of displaced passengers in a large semiheated tent outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, Dennis and Bonnie Barlow of Virginia were reviewing the high points of their vacation so far. First, they cruised the Mediterranean on the Brilliance of the Seas, the ship, now notorious, whose battle with hurri...

Heathrow's boss announced Wednesday he would give up his hefty bonus this year after the world's busiest international airport was crippled by snowy conditions. Air and train travel throughout Europe finally began to return to normal.Temperatures have picked up in Britain and about 70 percent of Heathrow's planned departures -- some 900 flights -- ...

The snow was melting off London's streets, but Heathrow Airport told infuriated passengers it won't restore full service until Thursday -- five days after a five-inch (12-centimeter) snowfall turned hundreds of thousands of holiday plans into a nightmare of canceled flights and painful nights sleeping on terminal floors.Traveller's anger boiled ove...

The Christmas travel season turned angry and chaotic Monday as British officials struggled to clear snow and ice that paralyzed rail and air links and spawned cancellations and delays stranding thousands around the world.More than 48 hours after Britain's last snowfall, some furious passengers with boarding passes for Monday flights were not even a...

Ash clouds from a new surge in Icelandic volcanoes caused fresh travel chaos in major European air routes shutting down key airports in the continent. India's leading carrier Air India cancelled its Heathrow bound flights from Delhi and Mumbai on Monday.

Some of the elite London Marathon competitors faced an endurance test just reaching the British capital for Sunday's race, with travel plans disrupted by the volcanic ash cloud over Europe that forced organizers to spend around 150,000 pounds ($230,000) on private planes.

Europe's busiest airport reopened Tuesday as air traffic across the continent lurched back to life. But the gridlock created by Iceland's volcanic ash plume was far from over.

The impact to passengers and airlines of a travel shutdown across Europe caused by a volcanic ash cloud exceeds the airspace shutdown after the 9/11 attacks, the International Civil Aviation Organization said.

The volcanic ash over Europe has led to major disruptions of flights going to Europe and US at the Delhi international airport. Worried passengers are lining up not knowing when will they fly next to their destinations in Europe and US.

Travelers across Europe braced for chaos as a strike by British Airways cabin crew entered its third day on Monday and labor strife spread to other airlines.