22 Dec 2010

First travellers return home

7:10 am on 22 December 2010

The first passengers who had their Christmas travel plans disrupted by the snow in Britain and other parts of Europe are back in Auckland.

An Air New Zealand flight arrived at 3.30am on Wednesday morning from London via Los Angeles.

Another, which had a stopover in Hong Kong, was due to land at about 6am.

London's Heathrow airport is operating at about one-third capacity.