US flight cancellations top 2,200 on Christmas Day so far

Much more than 2,200 flights within, into or out of the United States were being currently canceled by 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday, in accordance to flight monitoring web-site FlightAware. And delays of flights nevertheless ready to takeoff numbered almost 5,800. Christmas Day is traditionally a mild day for passenger flights.

Demonstrating the sheer dimension and effects of the storm, it was an airport in the Deep South that was most impacted Xmas Day. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide (ATL) — the world’s busiest airport for passengers — noticed the most cancellation and delays.

No. 2 was a lot more than 1,000 miles absent out in the Rocky Mountains with Denver Worldwide.

The storm’s consequences in areas of the West are abating, though. The temperature at 3:30 p.m. MT at Denver Worldwide was by now well higher than freezing at 46°F (8°C).

In hard-hit western New York, items have been however too rough for humor.

The temperature at BUF at 3 p.m. ET was 20°F (-7°C) with wind speeds of 24 mph, according to the National Weather Assistance.

A tough 7 days for flying

A pair of travelers snooze whilst other people line up to move through a safety checkpoint in Denver Worldwide Airport on Friday.

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The huge storm’s arrival was ill-timed for travelers who experienced began pushing Xmas 7 days flying figures back again towards pre-pandemic levels.

On Christmas Eve, there have been a total of 3,487 flights canceled, in accordance to FlightAware. Friday was the worst day with 5,934 cancellations, although Thursday saw practically 2,700 cancellations.

This megablast of winter season climate across the jap two-thirds of the nation is forecast to bit by bit moderate into the past 7 days of the calendar year. As of 5:30 p.m. ET, there had been however far more than 260 preemptive cancellations for Monday.

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CNN’s Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Rebekah Riess contributed to this report.