The latest winter storm to roil U.S. flight schedules prompted carriers to cancel more than 550 flights across the nation as of 9:10 a.m. ET on Monday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Many of those cancellations came in the Washington, D.C., area where 5 to 9 inches of snow fell overnight in the Washington, D.C. area. Philadelphia also saw a higher-than-normal number of cancellations.
American, JetBlue, Southwest, United, US Airways and Virgin America were among the big airlines to waive change fees and ease rebooking rules for travelers ticketed to fly through the region Monday.
At Washington's Reagan National Airport, flights were grounded through much of the morning as crews worked to clear snow from runways and taxiways.
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Airport officials said the main runway reopened at 9 a.m. ET Monday morning, paving the way for Monday's schedule to begin at the airport.
Still, the airport warned that "residual delays and cancellations are expected to continue throughout the day. ... Snow crews remain on site to clear the runway open and to clear additional runwayss and taxiways as quickly as possible."
More than 250 flights – 148 arrivals and 121 departures – had been grounded there so far Monday. That figure accounted for close to a third of the airport's total daily schedule, according to FlightAware.
Elsewhere, about 78 combined arrivals and departures – or about 10% of the day's schedule – had been grounded at Washington Dulles as of 6:50 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware.
At Baltimore/Washington International (BWI), about 45 flights – roughly 5% of the day's schedule – had been canceled.
To the north, more than 100 flights had been grounded at Philadelphia. That represented about 8% of the day's schedule at the airport, a busy hub for US Airways.
About 30 flights were canceled at Raleigh-Durham as of 8:20 a.m. ET.
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