Over a thousand national and international flights were canceled in the United States on Tuesday, mainly due to the bad weather that affected the whole country: there were heavy rains and winds, snow and thunder and there were also four people died following tree falls and damage caused by strong winds to some prefabricated buildings.
About a hundred flights were canceled not due to bad weather, but due to the suspension decided by the FAA on flights carried out by Boeing 737 Max 9s, the aircraft model involved in the accident on January 5, in which an Alaska Airlines aircraft from this guy lost a piece of the passenger cabin while in flight at 4,876 meters altitude, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.
The airport with the most cancellations, 109 in total, was O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, followed by La Guardia Airport in New York, with 69, and Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia : The data is from the air traffic monitoring site FlightAware. The flights were also canceled on the orders of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a government agency that also deals with civil air traffic, which on Tuesday afternoon ordered some airports not to carry out flights due to snow and ice caused by bad weather. There were also many delays, at New York’s John Fitzgerald Kennedy Airport averaging three hours.