{"id":61344,"date":"2022-01-07T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61344"},"modified":"2022-01-07T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:58:20","slug":"2200-flights-canceled-as-winter-storm-pounds-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61344","title":{"rendered":"2,200 Flights Canceled As Winter Storm Pounds Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/2200-flights-canceled-winter-storm-pounds-northeast\">2,200 Flights Canceled As Winter Storm Pounds Northeast<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>Friday brought more bad news for airlines and their customers with 2,200 flight cancellations as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/northeast-braces-potential-bomb-cyclone-next-winter-storm-approaches\">winter storm blanketed<\/a>\u00a0mid-Atlantic and Northeast states and staffing shortages due to COVID-19 infections.\u00a0 Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, and regional carrier SkyWest Airlines are the hardest hit this morning, according to data provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\">FlightAware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FlightAware showed most of the canceled flights originated at Northeast airports, such as LaGuardia, Boston Logan International, John F. Kennedy International, and Newark Liberty International.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-20-21.png?itok=_I59q7fT\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-20-21.png?itok=_I59q7fT\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-20-21.png?itok=_I59q7fT\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"154\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0304599d-1945-418f-a2f8-86ccda505ee5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The high number of cancellations is a multiprong issue. First, crew shortages showed no signs of easing two weeks after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/flight-cancellations-christmas-eve-upend-holiday-travel\">beginning on Christmas Eve<\/a>\u00a0due to Omicron. Second, a winter storm dumped accumulating snow over the Tri-State region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-21-02.png?itok=g75oXK4l\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-21-02.png?itok=g75oXK4l\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2022-01-07_07-21-02.png?itok=g75oXK4l\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d9fdae86-05bf-4418-b1e6-f03160c7f47b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flight delays and cancellations are likely to worsen throughout the day and spill over into Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2,200 Flights Canceled As Winter Storm Pounds Northeast Friday brought more bad news for airlines and their customers with 2,200 flight cancellations as a\u00a0winter storm blanketed\u00a0mid-Atlantic and Northeast states and staffing shortages due to COVID-19 infections.\u00a0 Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, and regional carrier SkyWest Airlines are the hardest hit this morning, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16974,3535,1146,4318],"class_list":["post-61344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-northeast-north-america","tag-winter-storm","tag-winter-weather","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61345,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61344\/revisions\/61345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}