Snow, high winds and a glacial chill hit the northeastern United States Friday as a blast of brutal wintry weather bore down on many states and major cities, snarling air traffic. Temperatures in New York were expected to drop to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 degrees Celsius), according to forecasts.

Some 2,200 flights within, into or out of the United States had been cancelled.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings and advisories for a huge area spanning states from Chicago through New York, New England and even the US capital, Washington. Severe weather was also hitting the country’s Midwest, dropping a blanket of snow and cancelling flights at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
The northeastern winter warning was in effect in New York from Thursday evening through midday Friday, with forecasters predicting four to eight inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of snow and winds that could reach up to 35 miles (56 kilometers) per hour. New York City residents were urged to stay off the streets.

The National Weather Service said blizzard conditions were possible for eastern Long Island and the coast of Massachusetts. “Bitter cold will move into the Midwest and East following the storm,” it warned.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo activated the State Emergency Operations Center and also urged people to use mass transit, warning of possible highway closures due to inclement weather. In neighbouring New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie declared a state of emergency in anticipation of what was to come.

In Boston, where strong snowfall is expected until Friday, temperatures were expected to dip to minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit. School classes and state offices were cancelled for Friday in Massachusetts.

Airports across the region — including Boston’s Logan International — saw major weather-related woes that were expected to extend into Friday.
At New York’s airports, more than 500 f lights were cancelled over the course of the day, with hundreds others delayed.

Please check with your Airline before you travel if you are scheduled for the next few days, or contact us for more information.

Local reports indicated that more than 150 domestic and international flights to and from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport(DEL) have been delayed, diverted or cancelled amidst dense fog in the Indian capital for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, 17 December.

The reduced visibility also affected land travel, with dozens of trains to and from New Delhi being delayed or cancelled, and reports of vehicular traffic disruptions in the capital and in other affected areas of northern India, including Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and north-west Rajasthan.

Mist and fog is again forecast to affect parts of the UK tomorrow (Thursday 12 December). Please either check with your airline, via their website, or call our out-of-hours team on +44 20 3130 9767.

Our office opens at 0830 tomorrow, please call us for further assistance.

Flights have been barred from landing at Stansted Airport this morning (Tuesday 10th December), after equipment was damaged by an incoming aircraft.

The Gulfstream G550 jet damaged part of the Essex airport’s instrument landing system (ILS) but landed safely.

Air accident investigators are investigating the “incident”, which happened earlier.

The airport said departing flights had been unaffected but there were likely to be delays and cancellations because of disruption to inbound flights.

An airport spokesman said: “NATS, who are responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ILS equipment, have engineers on site and are currently working to the resolve the issue and return the airfield to normal operations as quickly as possible.

“As a result, flights will be subject to delay and cancellations so passengers are advised to check their flight status on their airline website.

“We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.”

The ILS is a radio beam transmitter that incoming aircraft can follow in order to land in poor visibility.