The majority of those flights were going to Washington D.C. and New York City.
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In a statement released Sunday night, officials asked travelers to check for delay or cancellation information before getting to the airport, and to be patient. Flights were set to resume at 9 a.m. Monday. Baltimore/Washington International listed 74 cancellations and 4 delayed.
Hundreds of flights were still cancelled, with LaGuardia accounting for more than 700 cancellations on Sunday.
The winter storm is characterized as possibly one of the 10 worst to hit the East. Snowfall as heavy as 1 to 3 inches an hour could continue for 24 hours or more in the area, said meteorologist Paul Kocin with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.
About 25 departures and 20 arriving flights had all been cut at the peak travel time early Saturday morning. Several trains scheduled to depart Washington for New York City were canceled, as was service from Washington to stations in Virginia and the Southeast, according to Amtrak’s website.
Passengers were being urged to check with their airline before heading to Eastern airports.
“You can’t run your first-of-the-day flights if there are no airplanes”, Van Cleave said.
American Airlines reported Sunday that operations at 46 airports it serves had been affected by the snow dump.
FlightAware.com shows O’Hare Airport has already canceled 70 flights for today and has just a few delays.
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Airports in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington shut operations Saturday. Where airlines put their planes for the storm affects how long it takes to get them back in place, for example.
