Snow and ice ground planes, halt trains across Europe
London's Heathrow stops accepting arrivals; Frankfurt cancels around 40 percent of flights
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Airline passengers line up to enter a departures area at Heathrow Airport in west London on Sunday. Britons Sunday faced little respite from the Arctic conditions that have disrupted travel and shopping plans on the last weekend before Christmas, normally one of the busiest times of the year.
PARIS — Europe saw little respite on Sunday from the Arctic conditions that have closed airports and disrupted travel on the weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year.
London's Heathrow Airport stopped accepting arrivals. Frankfurt airport canceled around 40 percent of flights.
Paris' Charles de Gaulle cut air traffic by a quarter as heavy snow blanketed the French capital — a rarity that has occurred several times in recent days during an unusually cold winter. Many passengers slept overnight in makeshift dormitories there, at Amsterdam's airport and at Heathrow, Europe's busiest hub for air passengers.
"The bars were open and some people were drinking and got quite nasty," passenger Sue Kerslake, who was stuck at Heathrow, told the BBC.
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