More than 800 flights at DIA canceled as winter storm slams Colorado
As a significant winter storm units into Colorado on Thursday, greater than 800 flights at Denver Worldwide Airport had been canceled by 6:30 a.m., in accordance with airline monitoring web site FlightAware.
The storm, which forecasters on the Nationwide Climate Service in Denver anticipated to final till Friday morning, may drop as much as 18 inches within the Denver space. Snowfall charges will seemingly worsen all through the day Thursday.
At DIA, 802 flights have been canceled, nearly evenly unfold between arrivals and departures. There are additionally 35 delayed flights.
Almost half of the canceled flights, 316, are by Southwest Airways. That accounts for 51% of their Denver visitors.
Regional airline SkyWest has canceled 199 flights, or 75% of their Denver visitors.
Frontier Airways has canceled 91% of their Denver flights with 124 cancellations. United Airways has canceled 78 flights, accounting for 12% of their Denver visitors.
Different airways with important cancellations embody CommuteAir and Mesa Airways, with 30 and 29 canceled flights, and Volaris and AeroMéxico have canceled all of their Denver flights.
American Airways, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Alaska Airways and British Airways all have a number of canceled flights as nicely.
Southwest and United airways issued journey warnings forward of the storm and are permitting some prospects to rebook their flights.
United prospects who bought their tickets on or earlier than Sunday and are set to journey Wednesday, Thursday or Friday can reschedule their journey by March 19 with no payment or fare distinction.
Southwest prospects can rebook or journey standby inside two weeks of their authentic journey date with out further prices, in accordance with the alert.