LONDON - Frustrated travellers in Europe expressed fury Monday at transportation officials' inability to clear snow and ice from planes, runways and high-speed train tracks, failings that have caused holiday travel chaos and fears that many will not get home in time for Christmas.
The continent's worst bottleneck was London's Heathrow Airport, where thousands of travellers were stranded overnight as flight cancellations increased even as other major European airports resumed normal operations after several days of delays.
London Mayor Boris Johnson summed up the exasperation as Britain suffered another day of travel setbacks.
"It can't be beyond the wit of man surely to find the shovels, the diggers, the snow-ploughs or whatever it takes to clear the snow out from under the planes, to get the planes moving and to have more than one runway going," he said as British Airways cancelled its Monday short-haul schedule from Heathrow.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Anger mounts as travel havoc snarls Europe during Christmas rush
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