{"id":113553,"date":"2022-12-25T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globaltrademag.com\/?p=113553"},"modified":"2022-12-24T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:22:51","slug":"airlines-delay-cancel-flights-across-us-as-winter-storm-disrupts-holiday-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globaltrademag.com\/airlines-delay-cancel-flights-across-us-as-winter-storm-disrupts-holiday-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Delay, Cancel Flights Across US as Winter Storm Disrupts Holiday Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
Winter storms pummeling vast areas of the US are prompting widespread flight cancellations and delays from East Coast hubs to the Pacific Northwest, upending airline operations during the busy holiday travel season.<\/p>\n
About 3,900 US flights were canceled on Friday as of 11:40 a.m. Eastern, bringing the total to more than 6,500 for the past two days, according to tracking site FlightAware.<\/p>\n
Airports<\/a> in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo and Seattle were taking the brunt of the impacts with airlines scrapping between one-third and two-thirds of operations, FlightAware reported. New York\u2019s LaGuardia was also hit hard, dropping about 30% of its normal flights. Nearby John F. Kennedy International and Newark Liberty International airports reported less than 10% cancellations, but the rate was still higher than normal.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so unfortunate,\u201d Helane Becker, a Cowen Inc. analyst, said in an email. \u201cIt will be a mess and people will be disappointed. Delays are better than cancellations, but there is nothing they can do about the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n