Thousands of flights cancelled due to US blizzard conditions
Thousands of flights have been cancelled in the US due to blizzards conditions.
Nearly half of flights at New York airports have been affected – with hundreds of flights cancelled today and tomorrow at La Guardia, Newark and JFK.
According to flight tracking website, Flight Aware, 30% of arrivals at Boston and 18% of arrivals at Philadelphia have been cancelled today as well as further flights being grounded across the US including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington.
The outlook is worse for tomorrow with 1,655 flights already cancelled within the US.
United has already cancelled 481 flights for Tuesday, JetBlue has cancelled 461 and ExpressJet, 267.
However, a number of the cancelled flights are on regional flights using smaller aircraft.
Virgin has cancelled five flights to and from JFK and one flight to and from Boston today. The VS26 from JFK to Heathrow tomorrow has also been cancelled.
The airline is offering free of charge changes to passengers wanting to move on to other flights up until January 30 or refunds.
Disruption is expected throughout the week as airlines struggle to return to normal schedules.
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