Blizzard has led to almost 7000 canceled flights

United Airlines said via Twitter that it plans to start “very limited operations” at Newark and other NY area airports this afternoon. Airlines at Chicago’s two major airports have canceled 215 flights largely due to a blizzard threatening down on the East Coast.

Travelers at Dulles International Airport hoped to get out on one of the few remaining flights on January 22, 2016, ahead of the storm, and the anxiety was especially high for international travelers who might be stuck with luggage and high hotel costs for days.

Hawaiian’s flight to Honolulu from John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday is also canceled. As of early Saturday, at least 130 flights were canceled at Miami International Airport.

All told, 3,458 flights scheduled for Sunday and 699 flights for Monday had been canceled, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.

Highlighting the scope of the storm’s disruption, almost 50 flights – or about 10% of the day’s schedule – had been grounded in the Mexico’s tropical beach destination of Cancun, according to FlightAware’s count.

Snow has blanketed parts of the mid-Atlantic since Friday, including Baltimore and Washington, D.C., according to the National Weather Service. The airports included vary by airline, but they include cities in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia all the way up the coast to New Hampshire and MA.

For those looking to cancel their trips, they need to wait until the airline officially calls off the flight.

United and Hawaiian airlines canceled flights to and from Honolulu as a blizzard on the East Coast created problems for travelers across the country. It also lets airlines restart the system quicker because they have planes and crews in place. Temperatures were expected to drop below freezing in some areas overnight Saturday into Sunday.