At Frankfurt airport, 570 of the 1,047 scheduled arrivals and departures were cancelled, while 254 flights were scratched at Munich airport and a smaller airport in the southern city of Saarbruecken ceased operations completely.
Timetables at Frankfurt’s airport showed only a very limited number of flights were still set to depart.
“I’ve had nothing but stress since yesterday,” said Klaus Ludwig Fess standing in the airport’s departure lounge, adding both his initial flight and his rebooked one had been cancelled.
“Now I’m taking the train to Berlin,” he said.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, however, also warned of delays and cancellations because of winter weather, and said it was limiting the top speed for its high-speed ICE trains to 200 kph (124 mph) as a precautionary measure.
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