Air travel across the United States has been severely disrupted after thousands of flights were cancelled following a massive winter storm in the country, sweeping from Texas towards New England. The system has grounded air traffic across large parts of the country and may be among the most severe winter storms in years.
According to flight tracking website FlightAware, more than 13,000 US flights were cancelled between Saturday and Monday, with cancellations continuing to rise as the storm advances. The scale of disruption marks the worst period for air travel since last year’s US government shutdown, Bloomberg reported. Furthermore, some airlines are expected to see Sunday disruption levels approaching those recorded during the Covid pandemic, when air travel was sharply reduced, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.
