UK weather concerns as Christmas travel peaks

Wednesday 23rd December 2009, 2:56PM GMT.

Over 4,000 people are expected to travel through the Airport today

TODAY is the busiest Christmas travel day with about 4,200 people expected to move through Jersey Airport.

However, passengers travelling to and from Southampton were experiencing long delays as a result of the runway freezing.

In addition, the M27 motorway, the main road into Southampton Airport, was closed this morning after a pile-up of 18 cars between junctions three and four.

This morning’s Clipper sailing was delayed from 9 am until 10.30 am due to the crash.
Generally people trying to get back to the Island faced a battle with frozen roads in the UK.

And it is known that some Islanders have been forced to scrap their Christmas holidays after being unable to fly out of UK airports to overseas destinations.

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