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- Ryan Merrifield, Senior News Reporter
- Published: 8:03, 24 Jan 2025
- Updated: 8:03, 24 Jan 2025
OVER 300 flights person been axed impacting 50,000 Brits arsenic 114mph Storm Eowyn barrels into the UK.
Flights person besides been axed from airports successful Glasgow, Aberdeen and Belfast owed to what has been described arsenic the "storm of the century".
Analysis of formation tracking website FlightRadar24 shows astatine slightest 334 flights person been cancelled.
Calmac Ferries connected Scotland's westbound seashore and Steam Packet Ferries betwixt Heysham and the Isle of Man some announced Friday's planned sailings had been cancelled.
A fig of bid companies including Avanti West Coast, Lumo, CrossCountry and Grand Central person besides told customers not to question connected routes crossed parts of northbound Wales, Scotland and bluish England with nary services running.
The uncommon reddish upwind warnings issued for Scotland and Northern Ireland arsenic Storm Eowyn is apt to harm buildings, uproot trees and origin powerfulness cuts, the Met Office said.
Cancelled flights crossed Scotland and Northern Ireland
Analysis of formation tracking website FlightRadar24 shows astatine slightest 334 flights person been cancelled crossed airports successful Aberdeen, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
This means astir 50,000 passengers person been affected.
The fig of cancellations for each airdrome is:
- Belfast International: 16 departures and 16 arrivals
- Belfast City: 23 departures and 20 arrivals
- Edinburgh: 74 departures and 72 arrivals
- Glasgow: 40 departures and 41 arrivals
- Aberdeen: 25 departures and 25 arrivals
This breakdown includes 18 home flights that were scheduled to depart from 1 of the airports and get astatine another.
These were lone counted erstwhile successful the full of 334.