Heavy snow falls in London and the South East this morning has caused severe disruption to flights at a number of airports but no disruption at Cruise ports yet.

Services at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City Airport and Southampton were badly affected, together with road, rail and public transport connections. Both runways at Heathrow were closed for a period and a Cyprus Airways aircraft slipped off a taxiway at the airport. Leeds/Bradford airport was also affected although its runway re-opened following snow clearance operations and there were no services on the Gatwick Express.

British Airways cancelled 65 flights and Ryanair 73. More than 20 flights from Gatwick were cancelled and 18 were diverted to other airports. BA cancelled all flights from Heathrow until17.00 today.

There were not many departures from Southampton & Dover cruise ports on Monday but there will be more during the week. The only thing effecting Cruise passengers is if they have to fly to Florida or Meditteranean to join their cruise ship as Most airports are effected.

Forecasters predicted further snow falls throughout the day following up to six inches of snow overnight and more this morning. The worse snow conditions in London and South East for 18 years closed many roads and hit bus services in the capital. Conditions are unlikely to improve with more snow expected through the week.