Heavy snow disrupted European flights overthe weekend and stranded hundreds of drivers as far south as Italyas a white Christmas appeared increasingly likely in manycountries.
On the last weekend for travellers before Christmas, some ofthe continent's biggest airports were shut, forcing thousands tobed down in the terminals and leaving some in no man's land,without a visa to provide the transit lounge.
Heavy snow caused chaos across Europe today, shutting down airport runways, forcing fast trains to a crawling and leaving cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays.
Frankfurt airport cancelled around 40% of flights and Paris' Charles de Gaulle cut air traffic by a tail as big snow blanketed the French capital - a curiosity that has occurred several times in recent days during an unusually cold winter.
