What a weekend of airline chaos in icy North America.
Airlines cancelled more than 10,000 flights on Sunday due to a winter storm that slammed the north-east of the US.
The storm brought heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain, the National Weather Service reported. There were also been more than 670,000 power outages reported in the US, travel news hub skift.com reported.
On Sunday, there were 10,519 cancellations and 2,037 delays in the US, website FlightAware reported.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport and Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport had the highest numbers of cancelled flights at 556 and 538, respectively.
Out of New York’s JFK Airport, 77% of flights were cancelled and LaGuardia had 91% of its flights cancelled.
Disruptions were expected to last into Monday with airports in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. most affected.
In Canada, more than half of the flights at Toronto's Pearson International Airport and close to half at the city's smaller Billy Bishop Airport were cancelled on Sunday.
Major carriers like American, Delta, United, Southwest, and JetBlue were waiving change and cancellation fees, along with fare differences for customers impacted by the storm.
Southwest warned that additional re-bookings could take time due to the scale of the storm.
Image: A plane is de-iced at Denver Airport
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