Several flights to London and Frankfurt from Dubrovnik have been cancelled due to bad weather that has frozen air traffic to major European destinations.

Several hundreds of passengers were not stranded, however, but managed to reach their destinations via connecting flights in Zagreb.

The deputy director of Dubrovnik airport Frano Luetic said that luckily there have been no major interruptions.

"The traffic in winter time is not nearly as intensive as in the summer months, so other than several cancelled and late flights, we haven't seen major consequences of the bad weather in Europe," he told the Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija.

The frozen barrier is only broken from time to time, Luetic adds.

One flight from London carrying 108 passengers managed to land on the airport in the last couple of days, and then fly back to the United Kingdom, taking 56 passengers.

During winter months, Dubrovnik is linked to London with direct flights four times a week, three times a week with Frankfurt, and twice a week with Rome