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The upcoming weekend will be the third strike weekend for the Marseille airspace in a row. This strike will again affect passengers throughout Europe. The airport personnel of Pisa and Florence will go on strike upcoming Monday. Delays and cancellations are to be expected.

The airport of Hamburg was closed yesterday after a power-outage in the morning affected operations throughout the day. No flights were allowed to depart or land at Hamburg Airport.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that passengers that booked connecting flights in one booking are entitled to compensation when they miss their connecting flight caused by a delay on the first flight departing the EU. The European Court is backing the passenger in this matter.

Saturday and Sunday will be overshadowed by French ATC strikes again. This time the department of the Marseille airspace will go on strike. The strike will cause flight problems for passengers, especially as the Formula 1 is set to take place in Monaco this weekend.

Air France staff unions have announced four more strike days for April. European passengers will now have to face seven (!) days of strike action this month.

The Unions of both inflight- and ground staff of Air France have announced a strike for Thursday February 22. Unions demand a large pay increase for the entire staff of the French airline.

UK airline British Airways cancelled more than 80 short-haul flights as temperatures hit below zero and the forecasts predict heavy snow for large parts of the United Kingdom.

More flights were cancelled in 2017 as a result of extreme weather conditions, shows data provided by EUclaim. An increase of 10 percent can be related directly to the five worst flight days for passengers. In 2016 16,411 flights from and to the UK were cancelled. In 2017 18,095 flights were subjected to cancellations.

Major disruption at New York’s’ largest airport, JFK. Passengers at John F. Kennedy airport were shocked by a large amount of water flooding parts of the airport as a water pipe broke yesterday afternoon.

British Airways (BA) is launching a codeshare alliance with China Southern Airlines. The new alliance is offering BA passengers new flight destinations in China.