More London flights cancelled or delayed

More London flights cancelled or delayed

The arctic conditions enveloping Britain sparked fresh flight delays and cancellations for a third day on Monday.

Four flights from Singapore to London have either been cancelled or delayed as at 9.30am due to the heavy snow and thick ice at Heathrow Airport.

Changi Airport Group said two of them are by Singapore Airlines and one each by Qantas Airways and British Airways.

Five flights from London to Singapore have also either been cancelled or delayed - three by SIA and two by British Airways.

SQ317 managed to fly out of Heathrow Airport and landed at Changi Airport at 10.45am on Monday morning. It was the first London to Singapore flight to land on Monday, after Sunday's flights cancellation and one of only seven flights to leave London.

Passengers on board the flight described the situation at Heathrow.

"It's just absolute chaos actually," said a passenger. "The rest of the people that are still at the airport, I'm afraid they'll have to start their journey tomorrow, because the airport is closed."

"We heard reports on the television that we were being given blankets and food and everything, but they said we couldn't have blankets and we couldn't have food because they couldn't take it off the aircraft," said another.

Some passengers from Sunday's aborted flight SQ318 were also at the airport.

Their flight took off on Sunday morning only for the plane to turn around two hours later, while they were being served lunch over the Indian Ocean.

"To see the flight monitor change where the aircraft actually turned around and was heading back to Singapore, and the captain said that we have to go back because of the weather conditions in the UK," said one of the passengers.

Accommodations were arranged for them for the night, but their travel plans remain unknown.

SIA said all flights to London on Monday remain provisional.

With forecasters predicting this month could be the coldest December for a century, Britain braced for further problems today with up to 20 centimetres of snow expected in some places.

-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-