Pace of flight cancellations quickens in Upstate NY as snowstorm approaches

More than 500 flights have been canceled in and out of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport for Monday due to winter weather conditions in which up to six inches of snow is expected.

As of Monday morning, airlines have canceled about 4,000 flights on both days, as a late-winter storm is expected to dump enough snow to disrupt travel in the Northeast.

At Philadelphia International Airport, some airlines have begun to cancel flights for Tuesday.

RIC canceled eight flights on Monday – five of those were to or from Chicago.

All big US airlines have waived change fees to customers ticketed to fly to airports in the storm’s path.

More than 2,720 flights had already been grounded for Tuesday as carriers looked to keep their planes away from airports that could become snowbound. Many flights arriving on Monday were up to 40 minutes late.

Winter storm Stella has brought air travel in the Northeast to a halt, with the three NY area airports unlikely to have service until Wednesday afternoon.

Southwest has made a decision to not operate at all tomorrow, and American Airlines says it won’t start operation until sometime after 5 p.m.

Additionally, American Airlines has shut down operations in Philadelphia for most of Tuesday and in Washington, D.C., before 8 a.m., and in Boston after 8 a.m. For Tuesday, 815 flights have been canceled. Two Tuesday morning flights to Newark and another to Baltimore were cancelled.

According to Flight Aware’s cancellation listing, major airlines-namely Southwest (luv), American (aal), and JetBlue-have axed the most flights for March 14.

She wasn’t able to get another flight back to Germany until Friday.

These summaries are accurate as of 9:30 a.m. EDT on March 13, 2017; check your own airline if you’re traveling, though, because with weather, everything is subject to change.