Around 500 passengers had to spend an entire night inside their grounded planes at Munich Airport as all the staff had gone home because of the heavy snowstorm and the airport had already been closed. According to German newspaper Bild, 123 passengers were due to fly from Munich to Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday, February 19, with airline Lufthansa, but they ended up being stuck on the plane for eight hours. The other passengers were on other Lufthansa planes and two Air Dolomiti flights scheduled to flight to Austria and Italy.
Lufthansa reported that they had 500 passengers affected. The actual number of passengers stranded inside plane is likely to be higher because of the other planes.
