Chaos in Europe as snow strands thousands
THOUSANDS of travellers are stranded at the main Paris airport after hundreds of Christmas flights were cancelled, as freezing weather and widespread snowfalls caused travel chaos across Europe. About 400 flights in and out of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle were scrapped, with some 30,000 travellers’ plans disrupted by the cancellations and delays, said the airport’s director Patrice Hardel. Flights in Belgium and Germany were also affected and motorists stayed off the roads as western Europe battled the latest cold snap. “Since Roissy came into being, we’ve never seen anything like this,” Pierre Graff, the head of Aeroports de Paris, the group that runs the airport, told RTL radio. The…
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