American Airlines customers must have a flight scheduled between today and Sunday to be eligible. The severe weather conditions will lead to many cancellations and delays throughout the region, including at our hubs at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., and Newark Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
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If your Delta flight this weekend is canceled or significantly delayed, they can give you a refund.
All major airlines have issued waivers for travel over the weekend, allowing passengers to rebook onto earlier or later flights to avoid the storms.
American says passengers may be able to change their trips online if they booked on aa.com or with American Airlines Reservations, and their travel is within the U.S., Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands.
Planes sit at their gates as work crews continue to clear snow from the runways at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., Feb. 13, 2014.
Six Friday departures from HIA also were canceled as of 4 p.m. Those flights were heading to Charlotte, Chicago and Philadelphia.
More than 420 Friday flights had been canceled as of 12:45 p.m. ET on Thursday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.
American Airlines will a similar policy, only theirs goes into effect Thursday and runs through Sunday. American is issuing the new rules for tristate and northeast airlines through January 24. (SFW), PHL, Providence, R.I. (PVD), Westchester County, N.Y.
They say anyone with flights to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. should be on alert.
Philadelphia: All flights will be cancelled Saturday, operations are expected to resume Sunday morning.
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Ahead of the storm, many airlines including United and Delta are waiving change fees for some passengers scheduled to fly through affected cities. “The change fee and any difference in fare will be waived for new flights departing on or before January 20-27, 2016, as long as travel is rescheduled in the same cabin (any fare class) and between the same cities as originally ticketed”, the carrier notes on its website.
