The leaden skies that have lingered over the UK since the start of the year don’t appear to have harmed agents’ fortunes during the first full weekend’s trading of peaks, with one reporting record business on "Sunshine Saturday" and another "its best-ever start to peaks".
Northern areas of the UK have been hit by heavy snow (Credit: iStock / EyeEm Mobile)
Heavy snow forced several airports to shut their runways over the weekend, including Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Bradford. Manchester had to close its runways again on Monday morning (6 January).
More than 150 flights that had been due to depart UK airports on Sunday (5 January) alone were cancelled according to aviation analytics firm Cirium, 6% of all scheduled departures, along with 136 arrivals.
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