Posted on 06/28/23
| News Source: The Hill
More than 700 scheduled flights have been canceled in the U.S. Wednesday morning as airlines prepare for a surge of passengers ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend.
According to online flight tracker FlightAware, as of 11:30 a.m. there had been 1,373 scheduled flights in the U.S. canceled and another 2,197 other flights delayed.
Of the canceled flights, 77 were at LaGuardia Airport, 74 were at Newark Liberty International Airport, 39 were at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, and 35 were at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Among airlines, United led the way with 363 flight cancellations so far Wednesday, followed by JetBlue with 89 canceled flights, Republic Airways with 72 canceled flights, and Delta with 61 canceled flights.
This comes as nearly 10,000 scheduled flights in the U.S. were either canceled or delayed Tuesday, with a majority of them occurring on the East Coast as inclement weather heavily impacted the region.