Flight Cancellations Pile Up as Snowstorm Pounds U.S. Capital
Flight Cancellations Pile Up as Snowstorm Pounds U.S. Capital
(Bloomberg) -- Airline cancellations spilled into a second day after a winter storm slammed the Washington, D.C., area with its biggest snowfall since 2019.
Some 21% of flights at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport were grounded Tuesday morning, according to FlightAware.com. At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 18% of flights were scrubbed.
More than 1,200 flights were dropped nationwide, marking the ninth straight day with more than 1,000 cancellations, many of them as coronavirus infections caused staffing shortages.
Southwest Airlines Co., which has a significant presence at BWI, canceled 10% of its flights Tuesday, while JetBlue Airways Corp. grounded 11%.
More than 3,200 flights were canceled in the U.S. on Monday, the most in more than a month. Nearly 18,000 flights were parked in the U.S. from Dec. 24 through Monday, according to FlightAware, while more than 67,500 were delayed.
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