Amanda Young, left, hands her daughter to her grandmother, Diane Hill, after arriving in Edmonton from London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday afternoon.
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"I was stuck at Heathrow Airport from the 20th and then I had to take a four-hour train back to where I was from and then I finally got out today," said Rupaly Toor, who travelled home to Edmonton for her Christmas break from school.
"So yeah, it's horrible there ... it's exactly how it is on TV. There's tents outside and just people camping and it's not good."
Weather delays forced Air Canada to cancel many of its flights to and from London. The airline was able to resume its full schedule Tuesday but officials warned it might take more than a week to lear the passenger backlog.
Two incoming flights, and two outgoing flights from the Edmonton International Airport were cancelled because of the snow in London.
"It took them three days without snow to get a runway cleared. It's just ridiculous," said Howard Singleton, who flew to Edmonton to visit his brother.
Singleton was supposed to fly out of Heathrow on Monday but his flight was cancelled after the plane wasn't allowed to land.
All the worries and delays were forgotten when Diane Hill's daughter and son-in-law walked through the arrivals gate with their new baby girl.
"It feels fabulous. Christmas will be Christmas," Hill said.
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