Airlines waive fees as 2,300 flight cancellations pile up from winter storm

Air travellers faced a rough start to the week as wintry weather snarled flights from the Great Lakes into the Northeast. The worst of Monday’s problems were in the Northeast, where flight schedules remained bogged down from wintry weather that moved through on Sunday. Snow was still falling Monday morning across parts of New England, though it was expected to wind down by afternoon. Nationwide, more than 810 flights had been canceled and another 1,600 dealyed as of 11 a.m. ET, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. More than 475 of those cancellations were made preemptively by late Saturday as airlines pared flights in anticipation of rebooting their schedules on Monday. Monday’s cancellations follow another 1,100 on Sunday and 578 more on Saturday. That brings the US cancellation count since Saturday to about 2,300. The majority of the cancellations in that tally were made because of the weather system. For Monday, the hardest-hit airports were those serving New York City and Boston. Several mid-sized airports in New England also were seeing significant disruptions Monday.<br/>