Planes park on the tarmac during a snowstorm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, January 6, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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Thousands of flights were disrupted Monday as a winter storm moved east, causing noise to air travel across the eastern United States.
As of 5:45 p.m. ET, more than 6,900 U.S. flights had been delayed and more than 2,130 had been canceled, according to aviation tracking company FlightAware.
The storm, which was moving from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic, was expected to dump up to a foot of snow in the Washington, D.C., area even as cold air spread across the southern United States, federal forecasters said.
More than 300 flights, or 80% of the day’s schedule, were canceled at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and about one-third of scheduled flights at Washington Dulles International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport were each canceled. Ta.
Each major airport in the New York area had about 200 delayed flights, according to a FlightAware tally, and other major airports, including Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport, also experienced significant delays.
united, southwest, american and other airlines waived change fees and fare differences for travelers affected by the storm.
