Hundreds of thousands of UK travellers will wake up on Saturday morning where they did not intend to be after Storm Eowyn wreaked havoc on the transport network.
Even though the extreme weather has abated, many journeys on Saturday are likely to be disrupted due to flight disarray, storm damage and planned rail engineering work.
No ScotRail trains will run until the afternoon, and Northern has cancelled all services on several routes in the north of England.
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According to the aviation analysts, Cirium, more than 1,000 flights to, from and within the UK and Ireland were grounded because of the storm on Friday. The worst-affected airports were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast International and Belfast City.
Cancellations included long-haul departures from Glasgow to Dubai on Emirates and Edinburgh to Doha on Qatar Airways. Hundreds of passengers were booked on each flight to the Gulf, with many of them connecting to Asia, Africa or Australasia. The second Qatar Airways flight of the day was routed via Manchester and is expected to depart from Edinburgh 15 hours late.
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Some holiday flights on Jet2 and easyJet were delayed by many hours rather than cancelled. The Jet2 flight from Edinburgh to Rome is set to depart 15 hours late, while easyJetpassengers from the Scottish capital to Hurghada in Egypt were 10 hours behind schedule.
Ryanair passengers experienced some interesting diversions on flights to Scotland. Passengers from Krakow to Glasgow endured two missed approaches before their plane was diverted to Manchester.
A flight from Stansted to Edinburgh turned around after being unable to land. At one point the tracking site Flightradar24 reported the Boeing 737 was heading for Cologne in Germany, but the plane made a turn while over the North Sea and returned to Stansted.
With aircraft and crews out of position, cancellations and delays are continuing on Saturday. British Airways has already cancelled four flights from Scotland to London Heathrow: two from Aberdeen and one each from Edinburgh and Glasgow. EasyJet has delays on flights linking Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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