Published on : Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Denver, which is a major hub or base for three big carriers: Southwest, United and Frontier, seems to be in the eye of the storm.
According FlightAware.com, nationwide, nearly 1,200 flights had been cancelled and another 420 delayed as of 8 a.m. ET.
Blizzard conditions and up to a foot of snow were possible by Thursday for Denver and other parts of Colorado.
All big airlines were waiving their change fees, both for Denver and for numerous other cities in the path of the storm – dubbed “Ulmer” by The Weather Channel.
At the busy Denver International Airport, more than 950 combined arrivals and departures had been canceled as of 8 a.m. ET. That represented more than half of the day’s flights there, FlightAware calculated.
United operates one of its busiest hubs in Denver, which also is the busiest hub for Denver-based Frontier. For Southwest, Denver is the fourth-busiest airport in its entire network.
Weather disruptions were likely to spread Wednesday from Colorado and the Rockies east into Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Some airlines’ weather waivers included airports in Illinois and Wisconsin, where rainy and stormy weather was forecast for airports in Chicago and Milwaukee.
In Colorado Springs, nearly 40 per cent of the day’s flights had been canceled, according to FlightAware.
Other airports included in multiple airline weather waivers included places like Bismarck, North Dakota; Duluth, Minnesota; Hayden/Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Flyers should also keep their eyes on other potential trouble spots Wednesday.
Aside from Denver, however, most of Wednesday’s disruptions from the storm were likely to affect mostly smaller airports.
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