It warned passengers to check the status of their flight before travelling.
The cancellations were mainly to European destinations, but long-haul flights also suffered, with services scrapped to Newark and Detroit in the United States.
Spain
In Spain, travellers faced major delays of up to 3.5 hours.
Some flights arriving at Madrid and Barcelona airports from several European cities were cancelled, the airports’ websites said.
These included Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Manchester, London and Paris.
No snow or ice warnings were issued for Spain on Sunday, but a yellow-level warning for wind was in place for parts of the north.
Czech Republic
Prague’s Vaclav Havel airport was shut down because of freezing rain and black ice at 1600 GMT on Sunday. It was expected to reopen in the evening.
The closure affected dozens of flights, with some incoming ones diverted to other cities, the airport authorities said on X.
“Some planes heading to Prague had to return to the airports they had taken off from,” airport spokeswoman Denisa Hejtmankova told AFP.
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