, served mainly blue-chip companies trying to get employees into work , said Keith Cain a Control Room manager for the company . Customers waited up to an hour and a half for a cab early in the morning , he said . See gallery of UK under snow '' Jochen Jaeger , 36 , found himself stranded at Heathrow , unable to fly home to Zurich or to get back into the apartment he rented in London . `` I will stay here at the airport , '' he told CNN . `` There is no other option . I may have to spend the night here . '' American businessman Ken Plunkett , 60 , from St. Paul , Minnesota , was trying to fly out from Heathrow Airport but found himself caught in the weather chaos . `` I know England does not have the infrastructure to remove snow like we do in Minnesota , '' he said . Watch passenger stranded by snow '' Jenny Leslie , a shop worker at Heathrow 's Terminal 2 , said it was so quiet at the airport `` you can hear a pin drop . '' Southampton Airport ,
LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The worst snowstorm to hit Britain in 18 years forced the cancellation of more than 650 flights at London 's Heathrow airport Monday and shut down the city 's bus network , partially paralyzing the British capital . A group of men push a giant snowball across Kensington Gardens , west London Monday . Heathrow , one of the busiest transport hubs in the world , closed both its runways for more than two hours Monday morning and operated with just one for the rest of the morning , according to BAA , the company which runs it . London City airport is also closed , while the British capital 's other two airports , Stansted and Gatwick , were operating with severe delays , BAA said . British Airways canceled all flights out of Heathrow until 5 p.m. except for Edinburgh and Lisbon routes . Send your iReport videos , stories One of the city 's largest cab companies was in such high demand it stopped taking cash and credit card bookings , serving only customers with accounts , it said . Dial-a-Cab , which has a fleet of over 2,500 vehicles