Christmas travel at the Port of Dover was thrown into chaos on December 20, 2025, after a French border control IT failure caused hour-long queues, strained local transport, and forced ferry passengers to allow extra time and brace for extended delays.
Britain’s Christmas getaway is reaching record levels today, with 24.4 million cars expected on the roads and IT-related delays at Dover raising warnings of long motorway queues, border disruption, and knock-on travel problems through Christmas Eve.
Flight disruption across Asia and the Middle East is intensifying as storms, crew constraints, and airspace reroutes drive widespread delays and cancellations at hubs from Dubai and Riyadh to Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, prompting warnings of missed connections and longer layovers.
Severe winter storms on December 19–20 disrupted air travel across the Middle East, grounding 46 flights and delaying nearly 400 more at major hubs in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt as airlines grappled with rain, flooding, dust, and low visibility.
Airlines cancelled more than 30 Asia–Australia–North America flights on December 20, cutting capacity at hubs including Jakarta, Bali, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, and Manila and forcing holiday travelers into last-minute reroutes, tighter connections, and higher fares.
French unions have called new strike action at Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and Nice Côte d’Azur in early December 2025, raising the risk of flight delays, cancellations, and longer queues as travelers prepare for potential disruption.
AAA predicts a record 122.4 million Americans will hit the roads, skies, rails, and seas between December 20 and January 1, as cheaper gas, resilient household budgets, and “make-up” trips after the pandemic combine to create the busiest year-end holiday travel season ever.
Stormy weather disrupted operations at Dubai International Airport for a second day on December 19, 2025, as heavy rain and lightning triggered flight cancellations, delays, and missed connections across Emirates and other global carriers.
European air travel is set for continued disruption after new December 2025 data showed hundreds of daily delays and cancellations at major hubs in France, the Netherlands, and the UK, as capacity limits, staffing shortages, and winter weather strain the network.
IndiGo’s mass flight cancellations in November and December have exposed serious cracks in India’s new crew duty-time rules and the airline’s planning, triggering schedule cuts, regulatory probes, higher fares and fewer options for travelers across the country.
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