Storm Floris causes flight cancellations and delays to and from Inverness Airport with winds of over 70mph forecast
Storm Floris has caused multiple cancellations and delays to both departures and arrivals from Inverness Airport today.
British Airways have cancelled the scheduled 14:50 arrival from London Heathrow to Inverness and the subsequent 15:45 departure back to London Heathrow.
Loganair’s flight from Stornoway to Inverness this morning was also cancelled along with the departure from Inverness back to Stornoway which had been scheduled for 10:10.
KLM’s Inverness to Amsterdam flight which was scheduled for 06:25 was also cancelled this morning.
There is also currently a delay to EasyJet’s London Luton to Inverness service which was scheduled to land at 11:25 but is now expected to be at least 90 minutes behind schedule. This delay will also impact the return flight scheduled to depart at 11:55 which will now be further behind.
An amber weather warning remains in place for much of the day with winds of over 70mph forecast.
The alert level, which applies from 10am to 10pm, covers all of mainland Scotland north of the central belt, as well as all of the Outer Hebrides, and all of the Inner Hebrides north of Jura.
Further travel disruption today has been confirmed by Network Rail with railway lines in the west and north of Scotland closing from noon.
Multiple flights are currently scheduled to depart on time from Inverness Airport during the amber weather warning, with further delays and cancellations still possible.