Weather Many flights from Zurich canceled due to snow and freezing rain
Snowfall and freezing rain severely disrupted air traffic at Zurich Airport on Saturday evening. The problems continued until Sunday morning. A total of over 50 flights were canceled.
05.01.2025, 09:31
SDA
On Saturday evening from around 6.30 p.m., 40 flights were canceled, explained the airport's operations control center at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. Over a dozen more cancellations were then made on Sunday.
While the weather had caused difficulties on Saturday, on Sunday it was a matter of "subsequent consequences". For example, some aircraft crews were absent because they were stuck at other airports due to the weather.
According to the operations control center, freezing rain poses a significant problem for air traffic. The water also freezes on the wings of commercial jets. Ice water causes problems at Zurich Airport once or twice a year, it added.
