Flights to UK back on track after storms

MAJOR AIRLINES yesterday said their flight schedules were running as normal despite Northern Europe being hit by severe storms.

General manager of Cyprus Airways Christos Kyriakides explained that the airline’s programme was running as scheduled yesterday, with no cancellations. “Passengers may face an extra 10-15 minutes on their flight times due to strong westerly winds affecting north-western Europe, but no other problems have been reported.”
On Thursday, flight CY346 from Larnaca to London Heathrow was cancelled due to bad weather, with passengers accommodated on the next flight, CY326 at 5.45pm.
A British Airways spokeswoman also confirmed that there were no changes to the airline’s flight schedules yesterday.

Flight BA663 to London Heathrow was delayed by two-and-a-half hours on Thursday afternoon due to the weather conditions but eventually took off at 6.40pm.
Britain was yesterday battered for a second day by severe weather, after the fiercest winds to hit the country in almost two decades brought widespread destruction on Thursday, leaving at least 12 people dead, wrecking transport networks and causing damage worth millions of pounds.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.