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A winter storm connected nan East Coast has near post-Christmas travelers successful a ho-ho-horrible position arsenic airports spot wide cancellations and delays.
The website FlightAware showed that arsenic of 7:50 a.m. ET connected Saturday, 892 flights within, into aliases retired of nan U.S. were delayed and 637 were canceled.
The website's "Misery Map" shows New York area airports, specified arsenic John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport, experiencing nan brunt of nan recreation chaos.
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Travelers astatine LaGuardia Airport (LGA) successful nan Queens borough of New York connected Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
New Jersey and parts of New York are nether authorities of emergency announcements arsenic complete 50 cardinal Americans are group to beryllium impacted by nan wintertime large wind barreling done nan northeast, Fox Weather reported. Officials successful New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are urging travelers and residents to workout be aware during nan storm, according to Fox Weather. Additionally, a flurry of wintertime upwind alerts person been issued successful areas from New York City to Philadelphia.
As of 7:52 a.m. ET, JFK Airport, which topped FlightAware's Misery Map list, had seen 30 delays and 77 cancellations since 5:00 a.m. ET. The Federal Aviation Administration said that flights arriving astatine nan airdrome had been delayed by, connected average, 2 hours and 37 minutes.
Saturday's delays and cancellations were preceded by akin recreation chaos connected Friday arsenic nan northeast braced for nan storm. On Friday, a full of 8,816 flights within, into aliases retired of nan U.S. had been delayed and 1,710 had been canceled, according to FlightAware.
A traveler looks astatine a departures committee successful Terminal B astatine LaGuardia Airport (LGA) successful nan Queens borough of New York connected Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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"I came to New York to person a ‘Home Alone’ Christmas conscionable by myself," Danniel Sermone, who was stuck astatine JFK International Airport, told the New York Post connected Friday. "I wanted to bent out. I went shopping, and went to Times Square, crossed up location for a while pinch nan large crowd. My adjacent disposable formation is astatine 6 a.m. connected nan 28th. So I person been hanging retired astatine JFK for astir 8 hours and still sewage for illustration 30 left."
Travelers get to drawback flights astatine O'Hare International Airport connected what is expected to beryllium nan busiest time of nan vacation play connected Dec. 21, 2025, successful Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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The westbound coast was not spared from nan wintertime upwind recreation chaos arsenic it knowledgeable a disastrous rainfall storm, though it did not look to origin nan aforesaid number of disruptions. FlightAware showed that Los Angeles International Airport had seen 64 formation delays and 15 cancellations by 4:10 a.m. PST. Additionally, FlightAware showed that arsenic of 4:10 a.m. PST Harry Reid International Airport had seen 16 delays and 9 cancellations.
