6,500 flights cancelled as winter storm hits US
Airlines have cancelled 6,500 flights to and from the north east of the US due to a ‘crippling’ winter storm.
The US National Weather Service, which is not known to exaggerate, is warning of a ‘high-impact winter storm’ expected to bring ‘crippling snowfall amounts and life-threatening blizzard conditions to much of the northeast’.
Blizzard warnings are in place for New Jersey and north to Maine including the major cities of New York, Boston, Providence, Hartford and Portland.
Winter Storm Juno is expected to become a major snowstorm by tomorrow (Wednesday) and could bring up to 3 feet of snow, along with freezing rain and strong gusty winds.
Travellers are advised not to continue with their travel plans and residents have been told to prepare for power cuts.
In Boston and New York public transport and car travel has been cancelled, except for emergency vehicles.
Flight tracking website said over 4,500 flights are cancelled today and hundreds are already cancelled for tomorrow.
This follows major cancellations and delays yesterday.
American Airlines has cancelled all flights today between Europe and JFK and Philadelphia, while United Airlines has cancelled all flights at Newark, LaGuardia and JFK, Boston and Philadelphia.
Delta has cancelled flights at Boston but is operating ‘very limited flying’ at LaGuardia and JFK.
British Airways has also cancelled the majority of its flights to the east coast.
"If you have a ticket for Monday 26, Tuesday 27 or Wednesday 28 January and are travelling to or from Boston, New York JFK, Newark, Baltimore, Washington or Philadelphia, you have the option to change your flight to a later date," it said.
Virgin Atlantic has cancelled all of its early flights today to JFK, Newark and its daily flight to Boston but said it was monitoring the situation for later flights.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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