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It snowed and snowed: this had far-reaching penalties for a whole bunch of vacationers at Munich Airport on Friday night.
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- Heavy snowfall slowed down operations at Munich Airport on Friday.
- Around 500 passengers had to spend an involuntary night in airplanes.
- Due to an absence of buses and parking amenities, vacationers had been unable to return to the terminal.
Around 500 passengers involuntarily spent a night in airplanes at Munich Airport in the course of winter. Their flights scheduled for Thursday night had been canceled after heavy snowfall on Friday night – in spite of everything passengers had been already on board and the planes had been prepared for take-off, in accordance to a Lufthansa spokesperson.
According to Munich Airport, vacationers had been unable to return to the terminal due to an absence of buses and parking amenities – and had been pressured to wait within the planes. RTL.de had beforehand reported on this.
According to the airport, the snowfall induced delays and cancellations all through the day on Thursday. 100 flights had been canceled. In the night, some flights had obtained particular permission to take off after 1.00 a.m. – a night flight ban usually applies in Munich. Due to the snow, nonetheless, flights that had already been dispatched and had been prepared to take off weren’t given permission to take off in spite of everything, a Lufthansa spokesperson reported.
Passengers wouldn’t have been in a position to return to the terminal: “At this point, all parking spaces for aircraft directly at the terminal were already occupied and bus capacity on the aprons was limited,” the airport mentioned.
Passengers stay on planes till the morning
Passengers and crews had been unable to go away the plane and had to spend the night within the plane on the apron. According to Lufthansa, as well as to three Lufthansa flights to Singapore, Copenhagen and Gdansk, two Air Dolomiti flights to Graz and Venice had been additionally affected. According to the Lufthansa spokesperson, buses didn’t decide up passengers once more till early within the morning.
The Lufthansa spokesperson was unable to say why there have been no buses accessible to take passengers to the terminal. The airport was chargeable for organizing the buses.
He couldn’t initially be reached for additional questions in regards to the incident on Sunday. “We very much regret the inconvenience this has caused,” a spokesperson for Munich Airport merely mentioned.
