Monday: Snow cancels flights in NYC, New England
Last update: 6 p.m..
Air travelers faced yet more wintry weather in the Northeast as the work week kicked off Monday, this time from two systems moving through the region.
The storms were bringing a mix of snow, ice and rain from an area stretching from the Midwest into New York and New England. Heavy snow was possible at a number of airports along the region’s busy I-95 corridor, with snow or ice possibly extending as far south as Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.
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Most big airlines were waiving change fees for customers ticketed to fly to airports in the storm's path.
More than 830 Monday flights had been canceled nationwide as of 6 p.m. ET, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Boston and New York’s LaGuardia airport accounted for the majority of those cancellations. And cancellations were already being reported for Tuesday, with about 70 preemptive cancellations scattered across airports such as Baltimore, Boston, Hartford, Newark Liberty and Washington Reagan National.
On Monday, about 340 flights – or a third of the entire day’ schedule – had been grounded in Boston as of 6 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware. At LaGuardia, cancellations had hit nearly 260 flights – or close to 20% of the day’s schedule. Providence also was seeing major disruptions, with about 1 out of every 3 flights canceled.
Other airports seeing higher-than-normal cancellation rates were Newark Liberty, New York JFK, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Raleigh-Durham, among others. Smaller airports across much of New England – including airports serving Cape Cod and its offshore islands – also were seeing storm-related disruptions, according to FlightAware.
Cape Air, a small commuter carrier that serves many of those airports around the Cape and elsewhere in New England, said it was suspending all of its Monday flights from Boston.
Most airlines had issued winter-weather policies for customers traveling through big airports in New England and around New York City. Delta's waiver included airports in the South. Details of the waivers varied by airline, but the policies generally allowed customers to make one change to their itineraries – with some restrictions – without paying a change fee or a fare increase.
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