In the US, due to snowfall, canceled hundreds of flights

On Saturday (January 12), due to a winter storm that brought snow from Colorado to the Mid-Atlantic, hundreds of flights were canceled.

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According to FlightAware.com’s flight tracking service, around 250 flights were canceled throughout the country, and 400 was also delayed. USA Today.

The most affected airport as of Saturday morning was St. Louis, where more than 100 flights were canceled, since more than 30 cm of snow fell in this region. Also, dozens of flights were canceled in Indianapolis and Kansas City (MO) airports.

Most major airlines have canceled the fee for changing the flight date at least at airports on the way to the storm. According to forecasts, on Saturday and Sunday, a storm will bring snow to the Ohio Valley and the Middle Atlantic. The busiest airports where weekend flights can be canceled are: O'Hara and Midway to Chicago, Washington-Dulles, Reagan National Airport in Washington, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

Still 40 flights were canceled on Sunday, mainly Southwest Airlines made preliminary cancellations at airports such as Baltimore / Washington, Chicago-Midway and St. Louis.

All four major US airlines have canceled rebooking fees at some airports because of the storm, although the details of this rebooking were different for each company, you can find them at the links: American, Delta, United и Southwest.

JetBlue, Frontier and Spirit have also introduced special conditions for changing flight dates due to the storm.

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Also, because of the snowfall, there were problems on the roads, because of the snow and ice, it became dangerous.

From Friday evening to Saturday morning, about 500 car accidents were recorded in the affected regions, at least 5 people died in them, writes The libertarian republic.

The state of Missouri and Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois suffered the most in this regard.

In Colombia, Missouri, due to icing, the plane slipped off the runway at the city’s airport. No injuries were reported. Passengers from the plane were evacuated on foot, in groups of three, because the bus could not reach them along the ice-covered runway.

It is expected that the storm will decrease slightly on Sunday, but still in some parts of the United States precipitation in the form of freezing rain and snow is possible.

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