Heathrow Airport Status and Flight Delays information due to Weather

Heathrow Airport Status and Flight Delays information due to Weather: Heathrow airport weather has been part of the News for most of December and the tradition continued on Sunday has thousands of early Holiday Travelers were forced to spend their first night of Holiday sleeping or not sleeping in one of the Terminals.

Heathrow airport officials have already said that no flights will leave today from at least two of it’s terminals as well as only limited Heathrow airport departures from two other of it’s terminal as the airport struggles with the heavy snowfall of the last 24 hours.

Heathrow airport will not accept any new plane arrivals and passengers have been told to check with their airlines before leaving home. Travelers from around the country have sent photos of the chaos inside terminals, as passengers try to sleep beneath thermal blankets and makeshift beds.

The UK as a whole is feeling the pressure of this latest storm as roads have been under icy conditions. The light at the end of the tunnel is that trains and ferries have been running as normal throughout this.

A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said: “We have listened carefully to the advice of our airside operations team and have reluctantly judged that while Heathrow’s northern runway remains clear, the change in temperature overnight has led to a significant build up of ice on parking stands around the planes.

“This requires the airfield to remain closed until it is safe to move planes around.

“We are removing 30 tonnes of snow from each stand, but the temperature remains firmly below zero and Heathrow’s capacity is limited to the extent that all parking stands are occupied by aircraft, making the job of clearing and treating them more difficult.”