BY: STAFF REPORT | BocaNewsNow.com
UPDATE: There is a new version of this story as of 11:34 a.m. Saturday, January 29th, 2022. Read the new information here.
UPDATE: Saturday, January 29th, at 11:15 AM: The flight cancellations continue at all South Florida airports. FlightAware.com now reports 3,532 cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today, with 638 delays. A whopping 68 percent of all JetBlue flights are cancelled today.
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2022 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Nor’easter about to pummel much of the, well, northeast is already leading to flight cancellations in and out of South Florida.
A late afternoon check of the flight boards for Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Miami International Airports reveals cancellations increasing for afternoon and evening flights. Massive cancellations are already in effect for Saturday.
Flights to Boston, Worcester, Charlotte, Long Island, New York City, Newark, Hartford, Chicago, Westchester, Trenton, Philadelphia, and New Haven are among the flights already not happening on Friday. That list is expected to grow as the weekend weather moves in and is likely to create huge problems up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
The FlightAware.com MiseryMap is already showing 596 delays and 116 cancellations in the Untited States between 1pm and 5pm Friday.
For Saturday — keeping in mind it’s mid-day Friday as this article posts — FlightAware reports 2,963 cancellations have already been logged for flights “within, into, or out of the United States.”
