Deicing Xmas

As christmas is just a few days away I am sure many of you are doing some last minute shopping and those of you who like me live away from family travel back 'home'. Now it seems that - at least in Western and Central Europe - this journey might be seriously affected if not interrupted by the severe winter and snow storms we have been experiencing over the last few days. The two largest European airports, London and Frankfurt, were forced to shut down flight operations for some time  earlier this week disrupting not only local, but equally international air travel - bringing back memories of the day-long closure of European air space during April this year.

 The latest message on the Lufthansa website reads:

"Heavy snowfalls at Frankfurt airport. Due to the current weather situation - especially at Frankfurt Airport - irregularities in air traffic are expected.Frankfurt airport is gradually restarting operations. Longhaul flights from Frankfurt are planned to operate from 1:00 p.m. local time. Additionally irregularities on domestic and continental flights are to be expected"

Furthermore, train travel is similarly affected by the heavy snowfalls resulting to German Rail even officially discouraging any travel these days. Hence changing the means of transport from air to rail is not really a viable option anymore :(

Let's see - I'm scheduled to fly out on Thursday and will try to continue blogging from G. as well as post some pictures.

Keeping his fingers crossed ...
Memonji