Heavy snowfalls at fault in more flight cancellations

Several aircraft are on Wednesday delayed or cancelled from the Arlanda airport in Stockholm.

It is a powerful snowfall, which has meant that only one lane is open, where the aircraft must be divided to countries and facilitate.

It writes the Swedish SVT.

at the same time has the airline Finnair announced that they have therefore had to cancel 41 flights.

It also has importance for the flyafgangene between Copenhagen and Arlanda airport.

- I can confirm that we have had to cancel some flights because of the weather conditions at Arlanda, says Astrid Mannion-Gibson, Senior communications officer at the airline Norwegian.

the Airline SAS can also confirm that they have had to cancel several flights between Copenhagen airport and Arlanda.

- Arlanda airport has only one runway open right now, so there is great pressure on traffic. Therefore we have unfortunately had to cancel a part of flights in the late afternoon and evening, says Freja Annamats, head of medieforbindelserne in Sweden for the SAS.

How the prospects look for the future flights is difficult to predict the.

- We are now trying to book passengers on to other flights and help them, as best we can, and we try to make sure that the traffic is as good as possible in the morning. But we can in no way know what happens at the airport during the night. We hope for the best, but it is a difficult situation right now, " says Freja Annamats.

with his plane ticket in the airport and did not know when to come forward between Arlanda airport and copenhagen Kastrup airport, one must keep an eye on infoskærmene, sound council from the Freja Annamats:

- It is hard to say how big the delay will be. But we do our best to communicate with those affected.

The largest snowfall came between the hours of 17 and 19, where there are the most flights and arrivals at Arlanda airport.