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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.

A power outage at the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, stranded over a hundred thousand passengers overnight in the dark yesterday. A fire in the below ground power control room caused the outage also damaging the airports backup generator system.

London Gatwick had the busiest November ever since its existence as it registered 2.9 million passengers. Growing more than 2 percent compared to the same month last year. Cargo and commercial flights increased largely this year.

A large technical issue with the Dutch Air Traffic Control in Amsterdam resulted in flight problems to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport yesterday. Many flights to and from the UK were affected by the technical issues.

Today, the 10^th of November, the Air Traffic Control of Rome and Brescia is going on strike between 12.00 and 16.00 PM. This means that no flights will be able to land or take-off from Rome and North-Italian airports.

After 85 days of strike British Airways finally managed to solve its dispute with the mixed fleet crew and union Unite over pay rises. The agreement includes that flight attendants are receiving inflation adjusting pay rises. Also partakers of the industrial action are being brought back in to the airlines bonus program concerning travel concessions and entitlements.

It is the farthest east ever that a hurricane in the Atlantic has travelled as today Ireland and the UK are being hit by hurricane Ophelia. Reaching winds up to 90 mph the hurricane is expected to cause quite a stir in daily life. Flights from and to Dublin, Cork, Belfast and other major airports have been cancelled by the threat Ophelia poses.