Over 1,500 flights cancelled as winter storm Devin hits US holiday travel

More than 40 cardinal Americans nether wintertime tempest warnings oregon upwind advisories arsenic dense snowfall expected.

Thousands of flights person been cancelled and delayed successful the United States owed to wintertime tempest Devin, hose monitoring website FlightAware reports, dealing a stroke to aerial question during highest vacation time.

A full of 1,581 flights “within, into oregon retired of the” US were cancelled and 6,883 delayed arsenic of 4pm US Eastern Time (21:00 GMT) connected Friday, according to FlightAware, which describes itself arsenic the world’s largest formation tracking information company.

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The delays and cancellations came arsenic the US National Weather ⁠Service warned of wintertime tempest Devin causing “hazardous question conditions” and dense snowfall forecast crossed parts of the Midwest and northeast.

More than 40 cardinal Americans were nether wintertime tempest warnings oregon upwind advisories connected Friday, positive different 30 cardinal nether flood oregon tempest advisories successful California, wherever a alleged atmospheric stream has brought a deluge of rain.

New York City, the largest US city, was bracing for up to 250mm (10 inches) of snowfall overnight connected Friday, the astir expected successful 4 years. Temperatures were forecast to driblet into the play erstwhile an Arctic blast is expected to swoop down from Canada.

New York’s John F Kennedy airport, ⁠Newark Liberty planetary airdrome and LaGuardia airdrome warned travellers of imaginable delays oregon cancellations. More than fractional of the formation cancellations and delays took spot astatine these 3 airports, according to FlightAware.

JetBlue Airways cancelled 225 flights connected Friday, the astir among the US carriers, intimately followed by Delta Air Lines, which cancelled 212 flights. Republic Airways cancelled 157 flights, portion 146 were cancelled by American Airlines and 97 by United Airlines.

“Due to wintertime tempest Devin, JetBlue has cancelled astir 350 flights contiguous and tomorrow, chiefly successful the Northeast wherever JetBlue has a ample operation,” a JetBlue spokesperson told the Reuters quality agency.

On the US West Coast, almighty wintertime storms brought the wettest Christmas play to Southern California successful 54 years.

There was inactive a hazard of much flash flooding and mudslides connected Friday contempt slackening rainfall astir Los Angeles, the National Weather Service warned.

Firefighters rescued much than 100 radical connected Thursday successful Los Angeles County, with 1 chopper pulling 21 radical from stranded cars, officials said.