#flight-cancellations

#flight-cancellations

Hundreds of Lufthansa planes will stay on the ground on Thursday amid an all-day strike by pilots and flight attendants. The strike comes as the airline's efforts to cut costs and become more profitable have put it in conflict with unions. The number of flights affected by the industrial action remains unclear, with the company initially speaking only of "numerous cancellations." Some flights are still to take place from larger airports, such as those in Frankfurt and Berlin.

After spending months anticipating a holiday, a week spent packing and doing last minute admin, and several stressful hours going through check-in and security at the airport, the very last thing you want to hear is that your flight has been axed. Cancelled flights are far more common in some UK airports than others. And now, flight compensation site AirAdvisor has looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority to reveal the cancellation rates across 20 of the UK's biggest airports in 2025. It also compared it to their rates in 2024 to figure out where cancellations are easing, and where they're getting worse.

"Flight attendants are bearing the brunt of the company's inability to recover the operation in the aftermath of Winter Storm Fern," the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the union for American Airlines cabin crew, said on Tuesday evening. "Many are stranded with no hotels and broken sequences that the company has been unable to repair," it added. In an Instagram post, APFA also said that flight attendants would receive double pay for any flights on Wednesday.

Amidst severe icy weather in western Germany, Frankfurt Airport has cancelled nearly 100 flights scheduled for Monday, leaving many travellers facing unexpected delays and disruptions. The cancellation of at least 98 flights at Frankfurt Airport was officially confirmed on Monday morning by a spokeswoman for the airport operator Fraport. The spokeswoman also told the German Press Agency that the number of flights affected could increase as the day goes on.

As family vacations go, it was just about flawless. But after five days, we were preparing to head home to Los Angeles via Maui when things took a turn: Our Alaska Airlines flight on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 out of the official Kahului Airport was canceled, and every aircraft of the same type was grounded after loose bolts were discovered on the popular plane models.

I'm stuck in Puerto Rico. I was supposed to leave on January 4, but my Delta flight was canceled after the U.S. raid on Venezuela. I arrived more than two weeks agoSunday, December 21to spend the holidays with my family in Guaynabo, just outside San Juan. I was born and raised on the island. My family's still here. A lot of my friends are still here. And there's nothing like Puerto Rican Christmastime.

Airports in Paris and Amsterdam were the worst affected, with the Dutch authorities saying more than 1,000 travellers had been forced to spend the night at Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest hubs. Six people have died in weather-related accidents as the continent reels from the most bitter cold snap of the winter so far. Five of those deaths were confirmed in France on Tuesday, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.

The highest marks for an airline go to Aeromexico for the second straight year. Of its 188,859 flights, 90.02% arrived on time, with 99.74% of their flights completed. Saudia, SAS, Azul and Qatar Airways rounded out the top five, followed by Iberia, LATAM, Avianca, Turkish Airlines and Delta. It's worth noting here that, of the airlines in the top 10, Delta had the most flights by a significant margin - over 1.8 million - of which 80.9% arrived on time.

While we expect Dublin Airport to be fully operational on Tuesday, some disruption to flight schedules is possible due to weather issues at other airports. Airlines have already cancelled 8 flights scheduled for Tuesday, including three return services between Dublin and Amsterdam and one return service between Dublin and Brussels. Further disruption is possible. As always, passengers should contact their airline directly for the latest updates regarding the status of their flight,

The French civil aviation authority has reportedly asked airlines to reduce by 15 percent flights in an out of Paris' three airports (Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais), leading to some cancellations. Anyone with a flight is advised to contact their airline before travelling to the airport. Other arrivals into Paris were delayed because of the snow, although flights are still taking off and landing in Paris. A cyclist walks on the snow-blanketed Champs-de-Mars in Paris on January 5, 2026.

American Airlines is adding 3,000 additional seats by adding flights and using larger planes in the Caribbean region. JetBlue says it expects to resume normal operations as well. A look at air traffic from Flightradar24 shows empty airspace over the weekend. There was minimal activity across the eastern Caribbean. Airlines cancelled over 1,000 flights nationwide on Saturday in part due to the Caribbean airspace closures, as well as other factors like weather.

Andreina Crepsac, 29, had been counting down the days for weeks. She had bought her ticket in early October: departure on December 17, return on January 7. This was not just another trip. Since arriving in Madrid almost six years ago, she has only returned to Venezuela once, at Christmas. This would be the second time, and it had special meaning: for the first time in years, her whole family was going to be together. Her parents would travel from Venezuela,

Indian aviation regulators told IndiGo to immediately reduce flights by 5%. The move comes after over 2,000 cancellations last week when it emerged pilots were not receiving sufficient time to rest between flights. India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday told IndiGo it had one day to submit an updated flight schedule, including a 5% cut in departures, after the airline stranded tens of thousands of passengers by canceling over 2,000 flights this month.

You could almost mistake it for an ad. Last week, the far-right Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the Amtrak Crescent traveling from the nation's capital to her home state, and she was enchanted. "The sweetest people run the train," she posted on X, alongside a video of the autumnal landscape rushing by. "And the morning views of my north Georgia mountains made me smile and warmed my heart."

But despite the step forward, airlines are still canceling or delaying hundreds of flights following the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) mandated capacity reductions. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were more than 1,700 delays within, into, or out of the United States and more than 1,000 cancellations, according to flight tracker FlightAware. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) had the highest number of cancellations at more than 50 outbound flights, followed by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Denver International Airport (DEN), and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).