A suicide attack has forced the closure of the international airport in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
While the Brussels airport has been shut down, other major international airports across Europe have not been greatlyaffected. FlightStats reports low levels of delays at airports including London Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
Here’s how major airlines have reacted, according to money.cnn.com:
Lufthansa: The airline has canceled 25 flights to and from Brussels, affecting 2,000 passengers.
Air France: The French airline said one of its flights left at 6:35 a.m. local time to travel from Brussels to Lyon, France. But other scheduled flights did not go ahead.
KLM: The airline said its five planned flights would not depart Tuesday.
Brussels Airlines: The airline has canceled 190 flights and diverted 15 flights to other airports immediately after the blast. Roughly 20,000 passengers have been affected.
British Airways: The airline said it has “canceled a number of flights to and from the [Brussels] airport.”
American Airlines: The airline warns that a planned flight between Brussels and Philadelphia has been canceled. Customers planning to fly to and from this airport should call the reservation desk for the latest flight information.
United Airlines: The company has canceled all remaining flights to and from the affected Brussels airport.
Delta Air Lines: Delta said its flight DL80 from Atlanta to Brussels “has landed safely at the airport and is parked remotely.”
Ryanair: The low-cost airline has canceled its flights out of Zaventem and diverted two inbound flights to a nearby airport in Charleroi.
EasyJet: All 14 EasyJet flights scheduled to arrive and depart Brussels on Tuesday have been canceled. One flight from Milan was diverted to Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Aegean: The airline has canceled all flights to and from Brussels on Tuesday.
It’s offering free rebookings or full refunds to any passengers who want to cancel their Brussels flights between now and March 31.
A flight from Athens that had been heading for Brussels was being diverted to Dusseldorf airport in Germany.
Emirates: The airline’s flight from Dubai to Brussels — Flight EK183 — was diverted to Dusseldorf, Germany. And Tuesday’s return flight from Brussels to Dubai has been canceled. The company said it is contacting affected customers to rebook new flights.
At the same, airline stocks plummeted around the world on Tuesday after deadly explosions ripped through a Brussels airport and train station, as Huffington Post reports.
Travel giant Thomas Cook Group — which operates charter airlines out of Belgium, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom –fell more than 5 percent. Air France-KLM tailed closely behind, sinking 4.8 percent by mid-afternoon in Western Europe.
France’s publicly traded airport operator, Aeroports de Paris, the London-based International Consolidated Airlines Group, the German air giant Deutsche Lufthansa, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, the German airline travel giant TUI and the British low-cost carrier EasyJet also plunged.
American Airlines fell nearly 3 percent in the first hour of trading with Delta Air Lines trailing behind with -2.6 percent. Only JetBlue Airways, which doesn’t travel outside the Western Hemisphere, actually rose slightly, to $20.06.
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