The past five days have been horrendous for airline passengers. Snow and ice has caused absolute misery and cast doubts over travel plans.

While it is impossible for this blog to stay completely up-to-date with every diversion, cancellation and operations at all the UK airports, the following tips will hopefully prove helpful and guide you to finding out information vital to your transport plans.

Passengers should be reminded that ultimately, your airline is responsible for your flight, and any questions you may have should be directed to your airline. The airport you are flying to, or from, is not the place to turn for information about your flight.

Although the airport is not the place to give you information about the status of your flight, a good place to check is the airport’s live flight arrivals and departure pages. This information is updated by airlines and, although cannot be guaranteed as completely accurate, will give you a good idea of what is happening. You should also be able to find out whether the airport runway is operating or not from their site.

Tip which may help you:
When monitoring a Gatwick flight last Friday I found more information from the destination airport’s website than from Gatwick’s – this may work well for short or domestic flights.

Passengers travelling to the airport in bad weather, or when bad weather is expected, should allow plenty of extra time for their journey.