An empty Transportation Safety Administration safety screening space is seen at Tulsa Worldwide Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Jan. 24, 2026, amid a winter storm. A flight info show within the foreground exhibits most flights canceled as TSA brokers stay at screening stations within the background.
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Airways canceled tens of 1000’s of U.S. flights this weekend as an enormous winter storm swept throughout the nation, bringing heavy snow, ice and sleet, adopted by bitter chilly.
Greater than 4,000 flights on Saturday have been canceled, based on flight tracker FlightAware. A lot of Saturday’s cancellations have been out and in of Dallas Fort Value Worldwide Airport, with practically 1,500 scrubbed flights, and at Dallas Love Discipline, with 190 cancellations, nearly all of the schedule at every airport.
Greater than 10,000 flights have been canceled on Sunday, with practically 6,000 journeys delayed.
U.S. President Donald Trump stated late on Saturday that he has accepted emergency declarations for the “Historic Winter Storms” heading to South Carolina and Virginia.
“We are going to proceed to watch, and keep in contact with all States within the path of this storm,” he stated in a publish on Fact Social.
As of 4:15 a.m. ET, greater than 270,000 U.S. prospects have been with out energy, with the worst hit areas being Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, based on PowerOutage.com.
The Division of Power on Sunday issued an emergency order authorizing grid operator PJM to “run specified sources positioned inside the PJM area” in a bid to assist with the acute temperatures and storm destruction throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
“As Winter Storm Fern brings excessive chilly and harmful circumstances to the Mid-Atlantic, sustaining reasonably priced, dependable, and safe energy within the PJM area is non-negotiable,” stated U.S. Secretary of Power Chris Wright.
Flight cancelations
American Airways, primarily based in Fort Value, Texas, had canceled 1,056 Saturday flights, greater than a 3rd of its mainline schedule and Southwest Airways canceled 579 flights, or 20%, based on FlightAware.
U.S. flight cancellations greater than doubled to almost 9,100 on Sunday when the storm is anticipated to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. As of Saturday afternoon, most flights from Raleigh-Durham Worldwide Airport in North Carolina to Portland, Maine, have been canceled. Main airline hubs have been affected as far south as Atlanta, the place Delta Air Traces is predicated.
Practically 90% of Sunday flights have been canceled at LaGuardia Airport in New York and 96% at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport. Greater than 70% of flights at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey and New York’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, which have extra worldwide flights, have been additionally canceled for Sunday.
Airways routinely cancel flights forward of a serious storm to forestall planes, passengers and crew from getting stranded, which might worsen disruptions after extreme climate strikes out. January is a off-season for journey usually however the huge storm was set to snarl journey for tons of of 1000’s of individuals for days.
American, Delta, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airways, United Airways and different U.S. carriers stated they’re waiving change and cancellation charges in addition to fare variations to rebook for patrons with tickets to and from greater than 40 airports across the nation. The waivers embrace restrictive primary economic system tickets.
American stated it was repositioning its airplanes and growing staffing at main airports to assist soften the influence of the storm and to “set the stage for a quick, secure restoration as soon as circumstances enhance.”
The Nationwide Climate Service is warning that the winter storm might have an effect on tons of of tens of millions of individuals and is anticipated to “convey widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England by means of Monday.”
— CNBC’s April Roach helped contribute to this report.
