New York
CNN
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As frigid temperatures blast a lot of the US and threaten extra storms within the coming days, airports throughout the nation are experiencing hundreds of delays and cancellations for the third consecutive day.
As of Sunday afternoon, greater than 4,000 flights inside, into or overseas, have been postponed, and greater than 1,000 canceled, based on tracking site FlightAware. Whereas an enchancment from Saturday’s practically 8,000 delays and 1,400 cancellations, the nightmarish travel weekend has seen greater than 11,000 whole flight delays. There have been roughly 9,000 delays and a couple of,300 cancellations Friday.
Essentially the most affected airports proceed to be these throughout the northern United States. Denver, which is underneath a winter storm warning till Monday night, noticed 10% of its airport’s incoming flights canceled right now. In Chicago, a few fifth of flights going out and in of O’Hare Worldwide Airport are delayed. Greater than 80% of flights out of Buffalo Niagara Worldwide Airport have been canceled, as Buffalo, New York, and its surrounding areas brace for several feet of snow, based on the Nationwide Climate Service.
Winter weather alerts on Sunday span from Texas to Virginia and embody greater than 45 million folks, together with all of Tennessee and Arkansas. Texas, infamous for its vulnerable-to-extreme-temperatures energy grid, is bracing for terribly chilly temperatures all through a lot of the state. Ten % of flights out of Dallas’ Love Discipline Airport have been canceled, in addition to 16% of incoming flights.
Journey delays are exacerbating an already-difficult week for airways and their passengers. Final week, greater than 200 United and Alaska Airways flights have been canceled every day as a result of federally mandated grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 plane. The Federal Aviation Administration instated the order after a piece of the fuselage blew off an Alaska Airways flight on January 5 with 177 folks on board. The incident left a gaping gap within the aspect of the airplane and ripped headrests off seats because the airplane flew at 16,000 ft, shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon.
United and Alaska Airways, the 2 largest US carriers utilizing the Max 9 plane, are among the many airways canceling essentially the most flights, based on FlightAware. United was the second most affected airline behind Southwest, which doesn’t fly any Max 9 planes, with 244 cancellations. Alaska Airways skilled the third-highest variety of cancellations on Sunday, having referred to as off practically 1 / 4 of its whole flights.
Each airways stated final week they’ve canceled all flights on their Max 9 planes till mid-January.