Deadly winter storm forces more than 12,000 flight cancellations and delays


Deadly winter storm forces more than 12,000 flight cancellations and delays

Wednesday 08 January 2025 04:10 EST More air travel chaos was expected on Tuesday, just after a deadly winter storm brought dangerous weather across much of the eastern U.S., forcing over 12,000 delays and cancellations at airports. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, more than 2,100 delays and cancellations were tracked within, into, or out of the country, according to tracker FlightAware. Of those, the majority were still reported at airports based in major East Coast cities. But flights in the South were also impacted as frigid temperatures and wintry conditions gripped the region. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport — where runways reopened after closing overnight — reported dozens of cancellations and delays, while flights at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport were also severely impacted. Meanwhile, snow continued to fall near the metros and in the mountains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., bringing an additional one to two inches. Cold and dry conditions were expected between Tuesday and Thursday before the next system approaches that area on Friday and into the weekend.