My friend is arriving on Thursday, 19th, so hopefully normal service will be resumed by then.
From the same page:
Updated at 13:20
Given the progress of the repair work, I can inform you that rail services on the Renens <> Lausanne route will resume tomorrow, Wednesday, 4am. Until this resumption of operations, work is continuing to repair railway installations. We will stay on duty throughout the afternoon to provide you with the latest updates.
"Trains have been running normally again between Lausanne and Renens (VD) since Wednesday at 04:00, SBB said in a statement. Repairs to the forty or so electric cables that caught fire on Sunday at Lausanne station have been completed.
Residual delays and changes in the composition of trains are still possible during the day, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) added."
Heavy snowfall in Austria caused power cuts and transport disruptions on Friday. They led to the closure of motorway sections and the temporary interruption of traffic at Vienna airport.
“Due to heavy snowfall, air traffic to and from Vienna is currently disrupted,” said a statement from the airport.
More than 230 routes arriving at this transit airport between Western and Eastern Europe are displayed as diverted, cancelled or delayed and those departing as cancelled or delayed.
“Passengers whose flights have been cancelled are asked not to go to the airport,” the airport said, a spokesman referring to the APA agency 20 cm of powder on the ground.
Vienna’s outer ring road was closed for several hours and “other sections of motorway had to be temporarily made inaccessible due to snowdrifts, immobilised trucks and reduced visibility”, explained the motorists’ association ÖAMTC on its website.
Power cuts have been recorded in several regions in the south and east, including Styria, where 30,000 households are affected, according to local operators.
A lull was expected in the middle of the day. The avalanche risk also remains high in this mountainous country.
New York going into effective shutdown due to incoming storm so I expect flights will also be cancelled. Might be the same in other east coast cities - Boston, etc.
Not sure if related but the Swiss flight from JFK to Geneva tonight is showing as cancelled as is the Geneva JFK flight tomorrow.
But the inbound United flights from Newark and Washington and return still show as operating.
I understand that Washington isn’t having a snow emergency. I’m surprised that Newark is operational, although maybe the snow there is not as bad as JFK. I have friends in New England who already had a foot of snow at 8 am, and I watched Mayor Mandami tell New Yorkers to stay inside today.
My nephew is supposed to be on the united flight today from Washington. Hopefully…..
Not sure about Washington but UA’s Newark flight last night was cancelled.
And some more I suppose:
Probably already mentioned in other threads, but due to the strikes on Iran and counterstrikes from them, flights to the UAE and Qatar are cancelled for now. Maybe other countries affected too, but I have friends currently stranded due to these two cancellations.
Airports in the Gulf area remain closed with no estimated reopening announced. These include
Kuwait (KWI), Bahrain (BAH), Qatar (DOH), some Saudi airports, Oman and UAE (DXB, DWC,AUH). Of course Tel Aviv and Tehran remains closed as does Amman in Jordan.
I hate to think of all that very expensive metal just sitting on the ground in a war zone.
It’s gonna be a while before these airports and the airspace opens up again.
Best to take a room and wait it out. Maybe in a hotel with a bunker 
It one way to end mass tourism.
Dubai airport (ICAO: OMDB) offered its services to 95 million passengers in 2025.
The airport has been closed since Saturday 28.02.2026 around noon after a drone allegedly hit it. Still closed now around 48 hours later.
Quick numbers: (2/365) * 95 million = about 500k passengers not arriving to their destinations via Dubai. This is going to be a rescheduling nightmare.
Most travel insurance does not cover war, so thousands of people will have to pay the extra expenses of “sheltering in place”.
I think it’s nuanced, though. A travel journo on the BBC said that if you are in the middle of your trip and can’t get home then you should be covered but if you haven’t started your trip and it has had to be cancelled then you won’t be reimbursed. Or something like that.
Finally Switzerland is copying NZ and finding a good use for all those concrete highways: Hägendorf SO: Schafe überqueren Unterführung und stoppen den Verkehr - 20 Minuten
Assume most are not sitting in war zones. Have you been to ZRH lately?
No insurance covers war. Also nuclear accidents.
I have not read the legislation in Switzerland.
At least on the US, the federal government is the ultimate reinsurer. Owners of nuclear reactors pay for an insurance coverage for damages to 3rd parties for 500 million. If damages are above 500 million, each owner would pay up to 158 million USD (cash) to a common fund. There are 95 reactors, which makes the common fund about 15 billion. If damages are above 15 billion, daddy government (the Congress) is the ultimate reinsurer.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/nuclear-insurance
If you own a home. Good luck getting reimbursed. Of course, that is if you are still around.
Sadly, there’s experience about that: Fukushima.
Big radionuclide release and pollution event. Some people died because the search and rescue of people trapped in the rubble was not possible, others are getting ill for the exposure while preventing further damage to the plant. Anyway, most people is alive, but they can’t return home. The money is to compensate displaced people, property loses, etc. In the case of Japan, I forgot how long but it was 10+ years to get it because it was not insurance but a simple lawsuit for damages.
Anyway the point of mentioning Fukushima is to highlight big disasters don’t kill all the people, there’s a lot of compensation to do.