Several thousand flights have been canceled or delayed due to heavy snowfall, ice and very low temperatures in the United States, American media reported.
The “Flytaver” portal announced that more than 2,000 flights were canceled yesterday.
The airline “Southwest Airlines” canceled 650 flights, of which a large number of them were canceled at Denver International Airport and Chicago International Airport.
A total of 400 flights were canceled in Chicago, reports the “Fox Business” portal.
When dealing with larger-scale cancellations elsewhere in the US, 200 flights were canceled in Texas.
The National Weather Service also took to social media to issue a warning of wintry conditions, including freezing rain, expected from Texas and Louisiana to the central Appalachian region and Mid-Atlantic states.
“Prepare for additional tree damage/power outages. Ice will make for EXTREMELY dangerous travel conditions,” the NWS Portland posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Heavy snow in Buffalo led to the NFL rescheduling the Buffalo Bills home playoff game as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul implemented travel restrictions on Sunday. Eighty-three percent of flights at Buffalo Niagra International Airport were also canceled on Sunday due to the weather conditions, according to data.
The weather wasn’t the only factor leading to turmoil for the airline industry over the weekend as United and Alaska Airlines continued to cancel and ground more than a hundred flights daily in response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 9, which was involved in a midair emergency on a Jan. 5 on an Alaska Airlines flight.
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