Swiss cancels dozens of flights due to weather conditions
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Swiss International Air Lines has cancelled 57 flights since the beginning of the year due to the weather.
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The airline expects further cancellations in the coming days due to the current weather conditions in Europe.
A total of around 7,430 passengers were affected by the cancelled flights up to and including Thursday, the Lufthansa subsidiary said. The most frequently cancelled flights were to Amsterdam – 42 flights have been affected since the beginning of the year.
For the period from Thursday to Saturday, a further 21 flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt and Luxembourg have already been cancelled, SWISS added. Around 1,390 travellers were affected by this.
The airline also assumes that further cancellations will be necessary in the coming days.
Exactly which airports and flights will be affected was still unclear on Thursday: “We are in close contact with MeteoSwiss and are looking closely at every single day and every destination,” the airline wrote. Due to the “significantly increased workload”, additional employees are also on duty.
However, weather situations are always dynamic, which is why cancellations at short notice are sometimes unavoidable. “If a flight cancellation is unavoidable, we try to make it as early as possible to minimise the inconvenience for our passengers.”
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