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Last update: 1:11 p.m. ET. Next update: By 7 p.m. ET. Commercial air traffic was halted at Washington National Airport Saturday and more than a thousand flights had been canceled by noon ET as an intense December snow storm moved into the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. The Federal Aviation Administration said on its website flights were not likely to resume at National airport until Sunday morning, at the earliest. Elsewhere, even where flights were flying, service was spotty at a number of airports. Many airlines “proactively” canceled hundreds flights as the storm neared. United and Delta each had canceled more than the 500 flights each by noon ET, according to The Weather Channel. The Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia airports were the hardest hit, as of 12:30 p.m. ET. WHAT TO DO:Scroll to bottom of brief for links to airline change policies “Delta reportedly canceled all flights in and out of Washington D.C., and American Airlines canceled its D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia
An enormous winter storm crippled the nation’s capital and the Mid-Atlantic early Saturday as fierce winds churned northward into New York and New England, canceling thousands of flights across the country and stranding motorists during the peak of the holiday shopping and travel season. With winter officially starting on Monday, one to two feet of snow was expected to fall by Sunday morning from Virginia to New England, where blizzard warnings were posted for coastal areas. In Washington, the storm blanketed the capital in serenity, at least until it began piling up on the major city streets and the surrounding Beltway early Saturday afternoon and forcing mass transit shutdowns. The mayor of Washington, Adrian M. Fenty, declared a snow emergency, following the state of emergency that Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia declared on Friday in advance of the storm. “This is one of the bigger ones,” said Kevin Witt, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in the Baltimore-Washington forec
Last update: 1:11 p.m. ET. Next update: By 7 p.m. ET. Commercial air traffic was halted at Washington National Airport Saturday and more than a thousand flights had been canceled by noon ET as an intense December snow storm moved into the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. The Federal Aviation Administration said on its website flights were not likely to resume at National airport until Sunday morning, at the earliest. Elsewhere, even where flights were flying, service was spotty at a number of airports. Many airlines “proactively” canceled hundreds flights as the storm neared. United and Delta each had canceled more than the 500 flights each by noon ET, according to The Weather Channel. The Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia airports were the hardest hit, as of 12:30 p.m. ET. Sources: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=12090.
