#flight-cancellations

#flight-cancellations

KLM has cancelled more than 150 European flights as soaring jet fuel costs linked to Middle East tensions begin to hit airline operations. The Dutch carrier said it will suspend 80 return services from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport over the next month, citing a sharp rise in kerosene prices that has rendered some routes 'no longer financially viable.'

In Europe, we have maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left. If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz ... I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.

Turkish Airlines has cancelled the majority of its Middle East flights until the end of March, as the conflict between the US and Iran continues to wreak havoc on international travel.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced the cancellation of 1,000 flights in April alone and many other major European airlines have announced cancellations or route cutbacks.

The head of the union, Andreas Pinheiro, said he expects around 300 flight cancellations per day, compared with what Lufthansa said were 800 flight cancellations during the previous walkout on February 12.

Due to the security situation at the destination, the airline has decided to cancel its flights scheduled for February 28 to/from Tel Aviv and to/from Beirut. Air France will communicate later on its flight schedule to these destinations for the coming days.

Posting on X, the airport said: "Due to adverse weather (Storm Hernando) on the east coast of the US, airlines have cancelled a number of flights due to operate to/from Dublin Airport on Monday." We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review your details and accept them to load the content

A snowstorm dumped several inches of snow across parts of Vienna overnight into Friday. Vienna International Airport paused flights on Friday due to heavy snowfall. Snow and ice on the roads of the city led to multiple traffic accidents, the public broadcaster Osterreichischer Rundfunk reported on Friday. What do we know about the snowstorm? Heavy snowfall has been reported in several parts of Austria since Thursday.

After spending months anticipating a holiday, a week spent packing and doing last minute admin, and several stressful hours going through check-in and security at the airport, the very last thing you want to hear is that your flight has been axed. Cancelled flights are far more common in some UK airports than others. And now, flight compensation site AirAdvisor has looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority to reveal the cancellation rates across 20 of the UK's biggest airports in 2025. It also compared it to their rates in 2024 to figure out where cancellations are easing, and where they're getting worse.

"Flight attendants are bearing the brunt of the company's inability to recover the operation in the aftermath of Winter Storm Fern," the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the union for American Airlines cabin crew, said on Tuesday evening. "Many are stranded with no hotels and broken sequences that the company has been unable to repair," it added. In an Instagram post, APFA also said that flight attendants would receive double pay for any flights on Wednesday.

Those are the games we'll talk about after our careers and stuff like that are done.

Air travel is showing more signs of recovery after Winter Storm Fern pummelled the country over the weekend. There were around 1,300 canceled flights within, into, or out of the US as of 6:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to data from FlightAware. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the charge with 276, followed by Charlotte Douglas with 138. While more flights are likely to be canceled throughout the day, there were about 4,000 such cancellations early on Monday. The day ended with 6,250 canceled flights, per FlightAware. That compares to Sunday's 11,618 canceled flights.

19,450 flights within, into, or out of US airports were canceled between Saturday and 7 a.m. ET on Monday, according to data from FlightAware. The majority of those, more than 11,000, occurred on Sunday. That made it the worst day for flight cancellations since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruption continued on Monday, with 3,700 flights canceled as of 7 a.m. ET, per FlightAware. At that time, Boston Logan Airport appeared to be the worst affected, with 60% of its departing flights canceled.