Thousands of Travelers Around US Stranded Due to Cancelled Flights

By: BZ Green 

As of 9:00 Tuesday morning, more than 2,800 flights have been canceled out of airports around the United States, due bad weather in the origin or destination airports. Part of this figure has also been the "pile-on" effect, in which previously canceled flights make planes unavailable for later flights, resulting in a travel nightmare for tens of thousands of passengers. 

This is all due to a monster snowstorm that is weaving its way through the United States and Canada. It could not come at a worse time, this being the busiest travel time of the year. 

According to the United States Department of Transportation, airlines will rebook passengers of cancelled flights on the next available flight to that destination, as long as there are seats. If passengers want to cancel their flight, they are entitled to do so at no charge. 

Is there anything that can be done to avoid this type of nightmare? Experts explain that morning and non-stop flights have the slightest chance of being canceled.  

This travel disaster comes as Tri-State area residents are finally returning to the skies. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today announced that for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, monthly air passenger levels across the agency’s regional airports surpassed pre-pandemic volumes.