European Snow Caused Delays In Multinational Flights &Nbsp, Retail Industry Hit

On Monday, several European flights were canceled or delayed, leading to thousands of passengers stranded at airports or unable to travel.

The European air traffic control agency (Eurocontrol) said that nearly 3000 flights in Europe were canceled on Monday, but it also expects more air services to return to normal soon.

The impact of bad weather in Europe is more than that.

Kenya has recently warned that tourism revenue in 2010 will be lower than expected due to delays in European flights.

In view of the growing impact of bad weather on airlines, Siim Kallas, the European pportation Commissioner, said that it was considering forcing the airport to provide infrastructural support at a minimum level in bad weather.

Airports become refugee camps

London Heathrow International Airport in London is now more like a refugee camp. Thousands of angry and frustrated travelers are waiting in the waiting hall for the flight delays or cancellations.

BAA, the operator of Heathrow airport, said the South runway continued to close on Tuesday, which means the airport's pport capacity has been greatly reduced.

The British government has also been criticized for its slow response to extreme weather.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said at a news conference that the South runway of Heathrow Airport will be reopened on Tuesday night.

British Airways (British Airways) said that the company will cancel a large number of short flights at Heathrow Airport due to bad weather and bad weather will continue until Christmas.

Analysts believe that British Airways lost 10 million of its profits every day due to freezing weather.

London Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in London, was reopened at 6 a.m. local time after the overnight shutdown, but passengers were told that more flights were delayed or cancelled.

The entry and departure flights of Frankfurt Main Airport, the largest airport in Europe, were reopened on Tuesday morning after 8 hours of closure.

Frankfurt Main Airport operator Fraport said it will resume normal operation as soon as possible, but flight delays will continue.

A passenger complained, "I arrived at the airport last Sunday and I have been waiting for it.

My flight was cancelled again.

I'm going to take the train now, and I don't want to wait here anymore.

It's too bad. "

Lufthansa said that the scheduled flight schedule is expected to return to normal on Wednesday. All flights will return to normal except those whose destinations are unable to arrive at Heathrow airport.

In England, hundreds of passengers were stranded in the train northeast of England due to a blackout caused by pmission lines.

Retail industry hit

Because the peak of Christmas shopping is usually two weeks before the holidays, European retailers worry that they have no time to make up for the loss of bad weather.

Analysts believe that sales of low gross margin, non food and CD, books and other gifts have been hit most.

Synovate, a market research firm, said that heavy snow before Christmas last Sunday meant that the number of consumers entering stores decreased by nearly 1/4 compared with the same period last year.

Synovate analyst Tim Denison said, "retailers were supposed to make up for their losses in recent times, but successive bad weather once again caused a brutal blow to the retail industry."

As the extreme weather in the near future still can not improve, many companies have heard the Christmas sales profit warning.

Alexon, a British clothing retailer, owns 990 stores in the UK and Europe. The company has warned that its sales have dropped by more than 20% in the past three weeks.

With the news, the company's share price fell 1/5.