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According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 7,000 flights were canceled on Tuesday hawaii travel guide alone, with traffic resuming hawaii travel guide slowly on Wednesday. Delays rippled across the U.S., affecting travelers in cities from San Francisco hawaii travel guide to Atlanta. Some passengers hawaii travel guide attempting to fly out of Europe and Asia also were stuck.
Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast hawaii travel guide Monday and upended travel plans across the globe, stranding passengers from Hong Kong to Europe. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
It was possible that John F. Kennedy airport would re-open for flights on Wednesday, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It wasn't known when the LaGuardia and Newark, N.J. airports would reopen.
Flying began to resume at other airports. Delta restarted flying from Boston and Washington Dulles and Reagan on Tuesday. Airline spokesman Morgan Durrant said it would resume domestic flights from JFK on Wednesday. Service was slowly returning to Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
Air France is scheduled to fly again from Paris to New York and Washington on Wednesday, subject to the reopening of the airports there. It resumed flights to Boston the day before. However, ten of 13 scheduled flights between Spain and the U.S. east coast were canceled Wednesday.
Traffic from Tokyo's Narita International Airport to New York and to Washington, D.C., resumed as of Wednesday hawaii travel guide morning. From Tokyo's Haneda airport, the JAL/American Airlines flight to and from New York was cancelled.
hawaii travel guide Peter and Sheryl Knight hawaii travel guide were scheduled to fly home to Washington from Hong Kong on Wednesday, but their Cathay Pacific Airways flight via New York's Kennedy airport was canceled. The airline put them on a flight for Chicago on Thursday, where they would board another flight home.
"We're very anxious to get back and were very much hoping that the flight would be on time, but once we learned it was delayed and once we learned our delay would be only one day - Hong Kong's not a bad place to be for another day," said Knight.
Hurricane Sandy converged with a cold-weather system and slammed into New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph winds. The monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind - and even snow in some mountainous inland areas - has killed more than three dozen people in the U.S.
"It's kind of like dominoes - when one aircraft is out of place, it means the flight crew is out of place, and that has a ripple effect throughout the rest of the day," said Lance Sherry, who runs the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research at George Mason University.
Airlines face a large task in getting things back to normal. Workers had to clear garbage and downed tree limbs from runways at JFK. Water was on the runway at LaGuardia, according to a letter from United CEO Jeff Smisek to workers. At one point, some airlines hoped to restart some New York flights by late Tuesday, but that idea went out the window right along with the travel plans of their passengers.
Orbitz said hotel room rates rose 55 percent in Newark, where cancellations accelerated earlier than other New York-area airports. They rose 9 percent in one week in Washington, but fell 8 percent in Boston and New York City.
Wedding photographer Josh Saran was in Washington D.C. to shoot a Saturday wedding. His Southwest flight hawaii travel guide home to Seattle was canceled, so he rented a car and headed toward Columbus, Ohio. When snow closed hawaii travel guide the highway, he turned his rented Chevy Aveo toward Pittsburgh to catch a US Airways flight.
Airline reservations systems are so complex that one department might cancel a flight even while a reservations worker is trying to shift a traveler onto that same flight, said Joe Brancatelli, a travel expert who runs a newsletter for business travelers.
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