flight cancellations top 5,900, disrupting holiday travel
On Saturday, 5,934 flights were canceled after nearly 2,700 cancellations on Friday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.
Cancellations were highest Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, New York’s LaGuardia, Chicago O’Hare, Denver International and Detroit Metro Airport, according to FlightAware data. In Canada, Toronto topped flight cancellations.
In addition to the cancellations, there were 10,949 delays among the flights still going out.
For Sunday, more than 1,500 flights had already been canceled as of 7 a.m.