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More flights were cancelled in 2017 as a result of extreme weather conditions, shows data provided by EUclaim. An increase of 10 percent can be related directly to the five worst flight days for passengers. In 2016 16,411 flights from and to the UK were cancelled. In 2017 18,095 flights were subjected to cancellations.

After years of financial cutbacks the public sector of Greece goes on strike today. Flights from and to Greece are affected as the Air Traffic Control goes on strike between 11.00 AM and 14.00 PM.

Major disruption at New York’s’ largest airport, JFK. Passengers at John F. Kennedy airport were shocked by a large amount of water flooding parts of the airport as a water pipe broke yesterday afternoon.

We are starting the New Year with a storm raging over the UK and Ireland, resulting in floods, power cuts and 100 mph winds. Eleanor is causing disruption throughout the country and especially in coastal areas. Some large UK airports are also affected by the impact of the storm.

British Airways (BA) is launching a codeshare alliance with China Southern Airlines. The new alliance is offering BA passengers new flight destinations in China.

A power outage at the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, stranded over a hundred thousand passengers overnight in the dark yesterday. A fire in the below ground power control room caused the outage also damaging the airports backup generator system.

London Gatwick had the busiest November ever since its existence as it registered 2.9 million passengers. Growing more than 2 percent compared to the same month last year. Cargo and commercial flights increased largely this year.

It was a rough winter weekend for British passengers as more than a thousand flights were cancelled from and to the UK yesterday. Especially British Airways passengers were affected yesterday. Thousands of passengers were stranded because of the snow.

Irish budget airline Ryanair is dealing with some legal consequences after it had to cancel thousands of flights in September as a consequence of ‘planning problems’. Millions of passengers were troubled with cancelled flights. The Italian authorities is now taking legal actions against Ryanair requesting a fine of five million euros.

Bali’s International Airport is closed due to the volcano’s threat to erupt. A massive ash cloud has been emerging from the volcano for days now and the authorities have closed the airport down as the highest threat level for eruption has been reached.