Lingering flight delays remain in the wake of US blizzard

Airlines began the process of putting planes back into position in the Northeast following Winter Storm Jonas, but more than 500 flights have been canceled for today.

For travelers, the storm was inconvenient, but there was no holiday to miss by canceling a flight or being stuck at the airport.

In Washington, D.C., for example, flight schedules had picked up significantly the Dulles and Reagan National Airports – each of which had halted flights for 48 hours at the peak of the storm.

De Blasio said New York City schools will be open this week and that the administration is hoping to have the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s subway lines ready for rush hour Monday morning.

Although more flights are flying in and out of Charleston than the past two days, there are still cancellations, and people are still stranded trying to get back to Charleston.

Numerous affected flights were to or from hard-hit cities like Washington, D.C., New York City, or Newark, New Jersey. It canceled 1,600 flights on Sunday, January 24.

According to Flightaware.com, there are 56 cancellations at Logan Monday.

The major airlines say some of these cancelled flights won’t be rebooked until Tuesday at the earliest. Southwest plans to resume normal operations at Baltimore-Washington and LaGuardia on Tuesday. It expects to fly its first inbound aircraft to Washington, D.C. around 9 a.m. Monday. By the time the snow stopped falling in NY on Saturday night, it measured 26.8 inches (68 cm) deep in Central Park. The Swedish carrier SAS canceled its Washington and NY services to and from Copenhagen and Oslo Sunday. Delta flights also resumed in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. LaGuardia had 604 outbound and 594 inbound flights canceled, roughly 88.5% of its flights on Saturday and 75% of its Sunday flights.