Aug 11 (Reuters) – Airways canceled greater than 600 flights in america on Thursday morning, as thunderstorms in Texas disrupted operations at one of many busiest airports within the nation for a second straight day.
A complete of 1,213 flights had been canceled throughout the nation on Wednesday, in response to flight-tracking web site Flightaware.com.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mentioned on Thursday that a mixture of thunderstorms and clouds may delay flights at a number of hubs. Greater than 2,000 flights had been delayed inside, into, or out of america. (https://bit.ly/3bNQmzu)
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American Airways Group Inc (AAL.O) mentioned “surprising and heavy” thunderstorms had hit operations at its largest hub on the Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport, resulting in the cancellation of many flights on Wednesday and Thursday, in response to an inside memo seen by Reuters.
The airline canceled 368 flights on Wednesday and known as off greater than 300 as of Thursday morning, Flightaware.com knowledge confirmed.
“This was the worst storm we have seen at DFW this summer season,” American Airways Chief Working Officer David Seymour mentioned.
Southwest Airways Co (LUV.N) additionally canceled almost 250 flights on Wednesday, blaming climate and air visitors management applications.
“We’re working via some residual results this morning,” Southwest spokesperson Chris Perry mentioned in an emailed assertion.
In June, a number of U.S. carriers had been pressured to chop 1000’s of flights on account of opposed climate circumstances and labor shortages. learn extra
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Reporting by Nathan Gomes in Bengaluru; Modifying by Devika Syamnath, Shinjini Ganguli and Anil D’Silva
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