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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.
Its long distance services from Stuttgart and Frankfurt to Paris
had been cancelled due to weather conditions in France, Deutsche
Bahn said.
France's weather service warned on its website of black ice in
25 regions and floods in three other areas this afternoon.
In Germany, an extreme risk of black ice and heavy snowfall
would remain through Thursday in the affected regions, its
weather service said.
Numerous schools in Germany's centre and southern regions
remained closed as on-site education was suspended for the day.
(Reporting by Anneli Palmen and Reuters TV Writing by Miranda
Murray and Nette NöstlingerEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
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