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Air transport is frozen in Europe: snow grounds hundreds of aircraft

London, United Kingdom - 10% of movements cancelled at London-Heathrow

Europe is struck by cold weather, and of course the air transport sector is affected by the heavy snowfalls which are hitting the continent. London-Heathrow needed to reduce its schedule by roughly 10% because of the bad weather: "When there is low visibility -a spokesperson for the Europe's busiest hub declared- more space has to be left between aircraft. Many airports have plenty of spare runway...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1149112
Rome, Italy, 01/21/2013 14:59
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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