Snowfall forces Frankfurt airport to cancel 170 flights

Airview of Frankfurt Rhein-Main International Airport (June 2013) (Photo By McNam – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

BERLIN—Germany’s biggest airport is cancelling 170 flights because of snowfall, though forecasters predict the weather will improve over the course of the day.

Frankfurt airport said flights to Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Dublin and Warsaw were affected by cancellations Monday.

Delta and Lufthansa connections between Frankfurt and the U.S. were also affected by a power outage at Atlanta airport.