US: Sunday's Thanksgiving air travel crush: Few problems, so far

The busy Thanksgiving travel week is ending the same way it started for airline passengers: with busy airports, but mostly on-time flights. There were few air travel trouble spots Sunday, one of the busiest days of the year for air travel as Thanksgiving travellers return home. Nationwide, only 123 flights had been cancelled nationwide as of 7:45 p.m., according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Delays also were not a problems at most major airports. The one exception came in California. Cloudy, rainy weather was leading to some disruptions at San Francisco. At the Los Angeles and San Diego airports, fog was the culprit, though conditions were expected to improve after 10 a.m. local time. Airlines had canceled about 90 flights in San Francisco, representing about 6% of the entire day’s schedule there. About half of San Francisco’s flights were running late, according to FlightAware. At Los Angeles and San Diego, roughly 10%-15% of the day's flights were behind schedule, though cancellations were not a major problem. Beyond California, flights ran mostly on time at the nation’s other busy airports. That capped one of the most uneventful Thanksgiving air travel weeks in recent memory. <br/>