Winter Storm Grounds 1,600 U.S. Flights Monday, Including 100 at Boston’s Logan International Airport
Airlines canceled more than 1,600 U.S. flights Monday as a winter storm hit the East Coast on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The cancellations followed nearly 3,300 from over the weekend and came after several weeks in a row of significant flight schedule shakeups due to winter weather and the omicron COVID-19 variant, which spread among flight crews and workers and hit staffing levels at airlines around the world.
Parts of Western Massachusetts were hit with up to 10 inches of snow and spotters along Cape Cod and the coast reported some minor flooding. The storm brought strong gusts and knocked out power for more than 10,000 across the commonwealth, particularly in Essex, Barnstable and Middlesex counties.
Of Monday’s 4,162 cancellations worldwide, 1,648 were in the U.S., including 100 in Boston’s Logan International Airport and 18 at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, according to the flight tracker FlightAware.
More than 2,500 U.S. flights were delayed, including 140 at Logan and 17 at Bradley, FlightAware reported.
At least 77 cancellations are already set for Tuesday, but so far only one each for Logan and Bradley.
Thousands of flights were previously cancelled around the Christmas and New Year’s holiday weekends as COVID-19 cases spiked to record levels.
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