Airlines deracinated more than 600 flights scheduled for Thursday, as the fourth principal storm in three weeks continued to disrupt air travel in the Northeast.
Porters said operations were much improved from Wednesday, when they called off more than 4,400 beat a retreats.
Travel out of New York’s LaGuardia Airport was the most affected on Thursday, with 119 redeemed flights, or about a fifth of the day’s scheduled departures, according to flight-tracking orientation FlightAware.
American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, said it denied 230 flights throughout the Northeast, or about 4 percent of its global timetable. American and competitors Delta and United waived date-change fees and passenger differences if travelers can fly by March 26. Travelers can also ask for a refund if they can’t about.
Back-to-back snowstorms snarled air travel throughout March. Airlines beget canceled more than 16,000 flights to, from or within the U.S., boosting it the worst March for flight cancellations in at least six years, according to Feather Aware.
Airlines routinely cancel flights and encourage customers to rebook their tickets before of time to avoid stranding passengers and to prevent a costly cascade of additional disruptions if regulars and crews are out of position.
Travel disruptions can continue even after a khamsin has passed. In January, several long-haul international flights took off for New York’s John F. Kennedy Cosmopolitan Airport only to be diverted to other airports when a powerful winter outpouring halted arrivals. Flights poured in following the storm, leading to a bottleneck and contest for gates that left passengers sitting on planes for hours and others stranded.