Some airlines were allowing travelers scheduled to fly Monday to rebook tickets as long as they don’t change their original itineraries.
As of Monday afternoon, more than 1,100 flights into, within and out of the United States had been canceled, according to the online flight tracking service FlightAware. Nearly 3,500 were delayed. The disruptions generally stemmed from severe weather that occurred a day earlier as storms on Monday moved toward the East Coast.
Among the airports most affected: Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, New York’s LaGuardia, Reagan National outside Washington and Baltimore-Washington International Marshall. About 20 percent of flights at BWI, where Southwest is the largest carrier, were canceled. In Atlanta, where Delta Air Lines is the largest carrier, about 7 percent of flights were canceled and 20 percent were delayed.
Southwest customers whose itineraries included Baltimore, Charlotte, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Washington’s Dulles and National airports were covered by airline’s waivers. Similarly, American customers whose travel plans include Baltimore, Charlotte, both New York airports, Newark, Philadelphia, Dulles and National were eligible to rebook their tickets., Walter Williams, a national traffic management officer for the Federal Aviation Administration, said there likely would be travel delays Monday in the New York, Philadelphia and D.C. regions, as well as cities such as Denver and Memphis, and at several airports in Florida.
In Washington, the Office of Personnel Management announced that it will close federal offices at 3 p.m. Monday. A tornado watch was posted for the region until 9 p.m.
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