Another intense winter storm system stretching from the upper Midwest to the Northeast will once again test US airlines during the busy holiday travel period.
Service is still trying to recover from days of disruption that led to more than 3,600 cancelled flights between Dec. 26 and Dec. 28. Another 30,000 flights failed to depart or arrive on schedule over that timeframe, FlightAware data shows.
As of 10:00 a.m. New York time Monday, more than 500 US flights on Monday are canceled and another 2,000-plus are delayed.
Since Friday, Delta Air Lines Inc. has topped rankings compiled by FlightAware for the most disrupted airline anywhere in the world. The hiccups to flight operations come during a record period of air travel in the US during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, with a daily average of 2.9 million passengers flying between Dec. 19 and Jan 5.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service warned of a “potent” winter storm that they said would reach peak intensity Monday morning and spread across the upper Midwest to the Great Lakes, with freezing rain in New England.
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