Loganair Scotland Snow Waiver Feb 3 to 4 Flights
Loganair issued a weather warning advisory for eastern and northern Scotland covering Tuesday, February 3, 2026, through Wednesday, February 4, 2026, and opened a fee free option for affected customers to adjust travel plans. The advisory currently applies to Loganair operated flights to or from Aberdeen International Airport, Dundee Airport, Inverness Airport, Kirkwall Airport, and Sumburgh Airport. If your itinerary depends on same day positioning, tight onward connections, or a single daily rotation, this is the moment to decide whether to move early, hold with buffers, or plan an overnight.
The Loganair Scotland snow waiver matters because it gives travelers a practical escape hatch before cancellations harden, and before rebooking inventory tightens across a small network. Under the advisory, customers can rebook to an alternative flight up to 14 days from the original travel date with no change fee or difference in fare, subject to seat availability, and allocations are first come, first served. Loganair also notes that refunds are not offered for flights that operate as scheduled, and that if you have already checked in you must undo check in before you can rebook through Manage My Booking.
Operationally, this warning lands in the part of the UK air network where a short weather closure, a diversion, or a single crew or aircraft out of position can cascade into the next day because there are fewer spare aircraft and fewer later frequencies to absorb disruption. The Met Office has yellow snow warnings covering parts of Scotland during this period, with sleet and snow, and the potential for blizzard conditions and drifting, which can slow airport turnaround, de icing, and road access even after the worst band passes.
Who Is Affected
Travelers booked on Loganair operated flights to or from Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Kirkwall, and Sumburgh during Tuesday, February 3, 2026, and Wednesday, February 4, 2026, are the primary affected group under the airline advisory. That includes island travelers connecting onward to ferries, rail, or pre booked transfers, and also business travelers using Aberdeen and Inverness as time sensitive gateways for meetings, offshore work, or same day returns.
You are also indirectly affected if you are using Loganair as a feeder into longer itineraries, especially on separate tickets. A short delay that would be survivable at a large hub can become a trip failure on thin routes if there is no later flight with seats, or if weather forces an early curfew style cancellation. Ground access can amplify the problem, too, because snow warnings often coincide with slower road speeds, closed mountain routes, and longer transfer times into city centers and hotels.
Finally, travelers relying on parallel sea links should factor in that ferries can tighten or cancel during the same weather window. NorthLink Ferries has posted an early disruption warning covering the same week, signaling that sea alternatives may not be a clean fallback if conditions worsen, particularly for Shetland routes.
What Travelers Should Do
If your trip cannot tolerate a same day slip, use the waiver proactively. Move critical travel away from Tuesday, February 3, 2026, and Wednesday, February 4, 2026, or reposition earlier in the day and add an overnight near your departure point. The practical trigger is simple, if missing the arrival date breaks the purpose of the trip, rebook now while seats still exist, and confirm that you can undo check in if you already checked in online.
If you are considering waiting it out, set a decision threshold, and stick to it. For itineraries with onward rail or ferry connections, treat any schedule change that removes your buffer as a reason to rebook rather than gamble, especially if you are on separate tickets. For island travel, assume that "tomorrow morning" recovery is not guaranteed, and weigh whether an overnight on the mainland or a day shift protects your plan more than chasing day of recovery.
Over the next 24 to 72 hours, monitor three things in parallel: Loganair flight status for your specific flight number, Met Office warning updates for your corridor, and road and ferry service advisories if you need to connect onward. Transport Scotland and local operators can provide a reality check on whether surface transfers are deteriorating, which matters because even an operating flight can become impractical if roads, parking access, or last mile transport are constrained.
Background
A weather waiver is an airline tool that changes the usual rules so travelers can adjust plans before disruption peaks, typically without a change fee and sometimes without paying any fare difference, within defined bounds. In this case, Loganair's advisory allows rebooking up to 14 days from the original travel date, but it is still capacity constrained, and it does not expand the number of seats in the system.
Snow disruption in Scotland tends to propagate in layers. First order effects hit the airport operation itself, with reduced visibility, runway condition management, de icing queues, and occasional holds that slow departures and arrivals. Second order effects show up as aircraft and crew positioning failures, because a delayed inbound can block the next outbound, and a diversion can strand the aircraft away from the route where it is needed. Third order ripples hit traveler behavior and the wider system, with passengers shifting to later departures, compressing demand into fewer remaining seats, and forcing overnight stays that tighten hotel supply in regional centers while also increasing pressure on taxis, rail seats, and ferry standby space. When road conditions also degrade, the recovery window stretches because both the air and the ground links that would normally help passengers self recover become less reliable at the same time.