Flights Starting In Baltimore, 2 DC-area Airports To Re-Open
Taxis in New York City were also grounded on January 23 during the blizzard of 2016.
Airports in the New York City and Washington D.C. metro areas were the hardest hit. The lower number of cancelations on Monday shows the airlines’ efforts to resume their flight operations in the region.
She said nearly all morning flights had been canceled, but American Airlines – the airport’s dominant carrier – planned to have more than half of its remaining flights operating by mid-afternoon. All told, 3,505 flights scheduled for Sunday, 865 flights for Monday and 50 flights for Tuesday have been cancelled according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Approximately 3,100 flights were canceled on Friday, 4,511 on Saturday, and 3,505 on Sunday. Moscow Sheremetyevo airport said on its website that two Aeroflot flights to NY were canceled today while two others flew on schedule.
The leading airport for cancellations on Monday was Newark, N.J.’s Liberty International Airport, which had 247 outgoing and 191 inbound flights canceled.
Delta Air Lines, Inc. At Reagan National Airport in Washington, employees spent Sunday preparing for an anticipated restart Monday morning.
Snow is removed from a parking lot at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. On Saturday, at least 200 trips were canceled.
Airlines have said they are trying to restore service to airports in the Northeast as quickly as possible. Considering the current scenario, it is expected that the airlines might take one more day to completely resume their flight operations.