A severe snowstorm that swept Bavaria overnight into 21 February 2026 forced Munich Airport—Eurowings’ and LOT’s key southern hub—to cancel roughly 150 flights, according to German police and airport officials. Many of the scrubbed services were feeder legs connecting Polish passengers from Kraków and Wrocław onwards to North America and Asia. Munich handles about 18 percent of Poland’s indirect long-haul traffic, and Saturday’s cancellations triggered knock-on delays at Warsaw Chopin as LOT Polish Airlines raced to re-accommodate passengers. Corporate travel managers reported re-routing via Zurich and Vienna, adding as much as six hours to itineraries.
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Rail operator PKP Intercity laid on extra Warsaw–Berlin coaches after early-morning services sold out within minutes. The disruption underscores a growing winter-weather risk on Central Europe’s hub-and-spoke network. Lufthansa Group says it will station an additional de-icing vehicle at Munich next winter, while LOT is evaluating a contingency agreement with Air Baltic to protect its Warsaw–Munich shuttle. Experts advise Polish companies to build larger connection buffers into travel policies from December to February and to ensure employees have EU261 know-your-rights guides stored offline in case airport Wi-Fi collapses during mass delays. Travellers relying on same-day Schengen-area meetings should consider direct flights or hybrid formats when snow is forecast.
For travellers facing such last-minute detours, VisaHQ can swiftly check whether unexpected transit points require additional visas, file the necessary applications online, and send status updates straight to a passenger’s phone; its Poland-specific page (https://www.visahq.com/poland/) is a handy shortcut for corporate agents scrambling to re-issue tickets in bad weather.
Rail operator PKP Intercity laid on extra Warsaw–Berlin coaches after early-morning services sold out within minutes. The disruption underscores a growing winter-weather risk on Central Europe’s hub-and-spoke network. Lufthansa Group says it will station an additional de-icing vehicle at Munich next winter, while LOT is evaluating a contingency agreement with Air Baltic to protect its Warsaw–Munich shuttle. Experts advise Polish companies to build larger connection buffers into travel policies from December to February and to ensure employees have EU261 know-your-rights guides stored offline in case airport Wi-Fi collapses during mass delays. Travellers relying on same-day Schengen-area meetings should consider direct flights or hybrid formats when snow is forecast.
