UPDATE: Air Traffic Disrupted By Earthquake In Japan
March 11 2011 - 8:52AM
Dow Jones News
Flights to Japan from Europe were disrupted in the wake of the
earthquake Friday.
British Airways, part of International Consolidated Airlines
Group SA (IAG.LN, IAG.MC), cancelled two flights to Tokyo from
London. Two flights from Japan to the U.K. departed before the
earthquake struck, so the carrier has no planes in the country.
A British Airways spokeswoman couldn't say when flights to Japan
would resume, but said the carrier was keeping the situation under
review.
Tokyo's Narita airport was closed and Haneda airport was only
partially open. Narita could reopen later in the day.
Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM (AF.FR) hadn't decided
whether to operate two Air France services from Europe to Japan
Friday. One flight from Paris to Tokyo was diverted to Osaka.
One KLM flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo also was re-routed to
Osaka and another was cancelled.
At Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA.XE), one flight to Japan was
postponed, spokesman Michael Lamberty said. There were no reports
of Lufthansa employees affected, he added.
Its Swiss unit still was planning to operate a flight to Japan
later Friday.
Finnish airline Finnair Oyj (FIA1S.HE) said it had cancelled a
flight from Helsinki to Tokyo. "That is all we have decided at this
point," a Finnair spokeswoman told Dow Jones.
-By Jonathan Buck, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)207 842 9237;
jonathan.buck@dowjones.com
(David Pearson in Paris, Hilde Messer in Frankfurt, Katharina
Bart in Zurich and Arild Moen in Helsinki contributed to this
report.)
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